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The man drove to an apartment building in Falmouth with the intention of attacking the victim, prosecutors said.
A Taunton man was convicted of murder Thursday for fatally stabbing a young man in 2023, prosecutors said.
A jury found Adrian Black guilty of first-degree murder after two hours of deliberation, the local DA said.
Black was accused of stabbing Milteer Hendricks, 19, to death outside of an apartment complex in 2023, the office of the Cape & Islands District Attorney said in a press release.
On June 10, 2023, a group of five people — including Black, who was 22 at the time — drove to an apartment building on East Falmouth Highway, with the intention of attacking Hendricks, prosecutors said.
Hendricks was unarmed during the attack and was “outnumbered,” prosecutors said.
Black stabbed Hendricks in the chest, then fled with the others in a black BMW, the DA said.
Hendricks was transported to Falmouth Hospital and later med-flighted to Brigham Women’s Health in Boston. He died the next day, the DA said.
Police arrested Black in Taunton two days after the killing.
Black is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A conviction of first degree murder requires a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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