ATLANTA — Chauncey Daniels will remain in prison for the rest of his life after Georgia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld his murder conviction in a 2017 shooting on a MARTA train that killed one man and wounded three others.
What happened: On April 13, 2017, Daniels boarded an eastbound MARTA train and shot Zachariah Hunnicutt six times, killing him. Three other passengers were also shot and survived: Johnesia Cofield, Angel Bowens, and Ernest Butler. A MARTA police officer stopped Daniels as he tried to flee the station. Four passengers who were on the train identified Daniels as the shooter at trial.
Background: Daniels and Hunnicutt had worked at the same company. Daniels’s then-girlfriend testified that Hunnicutt had stayed with them for a couple of weeks in late 2016 and stole money, clothes, and other belongings when he left. Daniels was angry about the theft but told his girlfriend he did not want to hurt Hunnicutt. About five months later, the shooting happened…