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