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No further details on the gang-related murder were immediately available, but officials said each suspect had at least one prior felony conviction. Both Johnson and Taylor face weapons charges as well. Johnson was charged with murder for Sunday's shooting, which killed Long Island accountant Paul Kutz. The department added that it had no knowledge of Johnson's whereabouts before the deadly shooting at the hotel.Ĭalls and emails seeking an explanation from the Dutchess County district attorney's office and the county sheriff's office were not immediately returned. At the time, sources had told the city's police department that Johnson had been hiding from police by staying at hotels in New York and other states. 9 murder of Darren Villani, said they were able to find him because he did not have a permanent address. The police department, which said they were also looking for him in regards to the Aug. LOOK LIVE: Wildfire smoke still blanketing NYC, hampering visibilityĪ spokesperson for the City of Poughkeepsie's police department (the City of Poughkeepsie is separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie) said Wednesday that the department knew Johnson was a fugitive and was aware of the warrant for his arrest, but could not find him. The Town of Poughkeepsie told NBC New York that the police department was not aware of the warrant until after Johnson's arrest on Sunday, and that they did not have any open homicide or robbery investigations with Johnson or Devin Taylor, who was also arrested in the hotel shooting. 'So there has to be an explanation as to why the arrest was not effected.' 'There may absolutely be a good reason why the arrest wasn't made, but as a result of not effecting that arrest, there was a loss of life,' said Wilbur Chapman, the former NYPD chief of patrol. During the August murder investigation, it seemed at no time did police or prosecutors act on the warrant that had been issued out of Georgia.

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Meanwhile, Johnson remained free on the street for months. Several law enforcement sources said that while police investigators wanted to make an arrest, they said the district attorney and others wanted to wait for DNA and fingerprint evidence to come back. Weeks later, in August, Johnson was being investigated in the Poughkeepsie city area as a key suspect in connection with a gang-related murder, law enforcement sources told NBC New York.

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