PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office won guilty verdicts today against the first two defendants tried in the near-fatal shooting of Nicholas Carnevale.
After a two-week trial, a Berkshire Superior Court jury found Kevin Nieves, 22, of Pittsfield and Daquan Douglas, 28, of Pittsfield guilty for their roles in shooting Carnevale on Aug. 21, 2018, at a party at the Ashley Reservoir on October Mountain.
“I am truly in awe of Nick’s strength during his long and difficult recovery from the injuries he sustained that night. He is an inspiration to our entire community, and I look forward to hearing about and seeing every milestone in his continued fight,” District Attorney Andrea Harrington said.
The jury found Nieves guilty of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily harm, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, armed kidnapping with serious bodily injury, two counts of assault and battery, and a single count of malicious damage to a motor vehicle. The jury found Douglas guilty of misleading a police officer.
Judge John Agostini scheduled sentencing for Thursday at 10 a.m.
Nieves and Douglas are two of four accused of attacking then 19-year-old Carnevale, of Cheshire, which included pulling him from a vehicle, assaulting him, and then shooting him in the head. Douglas lied to police during the investigation. The cases against co-defendants Christopher Frazier and Luis Delvalle-Rodriguez are still pending.
The Berkshire State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Berkshire DA’s Office, the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services and Ballistics Sections, forensic scientists assigned to the State Police Crime Laboratory, state troopers from the Lee and Cheshire barracks, members of the Pittsfield, Dalton, Washington, and Hinsdale Police Departments, and the Berkshire County Sheriff’s Department all conducted the investigation.
