Taunton Man Convicted of First-Degree Murder in Brutal 2023 Stabbing of Unarmed Falmouth Teen

BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS — A Barnstable County jury has convicted Adrian Black of Taunton of first-degree murder, for the 2023 stabbing death of 19-year-old Milteer Hendricks of Falmouth, Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois announced today. The jury returned the verdict after deliberating for approximately two hours at the end of a trial that began March 19 and concluded April 2. Black, who was 22 at the time of the killing, now faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sentencing is scheduled for tomorrow – Friday, April 3, 2026 – in Barnstable Superior Court. The fatal attack occurred on the evening of June 10, 2023, at an apartment complex in Falmouth. Falmouth police and Mashpee fire-rescue crews responded to a 911 call reporting a stabbing and found Hendricks suffering from a chest wound. He was rushed to Falmouth Hospital and then med-flighted to a Boston-area hospital, where he died the following day. Investigators pieced together the case through witness accounts, surveillance footage from the complex, and cell-phone videos captured at the scene. The evidence showed that Black and four other individuals drove to the apartment complex in a BMW with the specific intent of attacking Hendricks. The victim was unarmed and vastly outnumbered. Black stabbed him in the chest, after which the group fled in the same vehicle. Black was arrested the next day, June 12, 2023, in Taunton on the murder charge. The case was investigated by the Falmouth Police Department and the State Police Detectives assigned to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office. The case was prosecuted by Chief of Narcotics and Firearms Unit Assistant District Attorney Thomas Flanagan, Chief of the Appeals Unit – Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney, and Assistant District Attorney Michael Preble along with Victim Witness Assistant Deborah McCoy. [Note: No photos of Adrian Black were available at the time of this report… developing…]