The suspect charged in the deadly shooting of a man in a hotel lobby who was visiting a New York suburb for his son’s Marist College “Family Weekend” was newly indicted in a different murder that happened two months before what authorities described as a random killing.
Devin Taylor, one of two suspects charged in the shooting of 53-year-old Paul Kutz at the Courtyard by Marriott, just miles from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, on Oct. 2, 2022, was back in court on Wednesday. This time, Taylor was arraigned on an indictment charging him with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the Aug. 9, 2022, killing of Darren J. Villani, the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, prosecutors allege Taylor walked up to Villani, described in his obituary as a 28-year-old father of a daughter, near the intersection of Mansion Street and Bement Avenue in Poughkeepsie and “fired a shot into his torso,” causing the man to step back and collapse. The gunshot fractured one of the victim’s left rib and perforated his lungs and heart, causing his death, prosecutors said.
WNBC reported investigators believed that the shooting was gang-related.
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Two months later, Kutz, a Long Island father, would be killed in the Marriott lobby.
Questions remain as to why Taylor was not brought into custody sooner. And his co-defendant in the Marriott shooting, Roy Johnson Jr., was considered a fugitive at the time.
Johnson was wanted on gun and drug-related charges by Georgia law enforcement since July 2022.
WNBC reported that law enforcement sources believed Johnson might have been in Poughkeepsie around the time of Villani’s death, but police didn’t pick him up off the streets because he had no permanent address, and they couldn’t find him. As of Wednesday, Johnson has not…
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