Convicted murderer charged in 2015 killing

A man already behind bars for murder has become the second person charged in the June 2015 fatal shooting of Shameik Floyd, city police said Friday.

Kaheem R. Cummings, 23, a former Poughkeepsie resident, was charged Friday with first-degree murder, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of robbery, conspiracy and tampering with physical evidence, all felonies, police said.

Cummings was arraigned and remanded back to the custody of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, police said.

Floyd, 21, was found lying in the road near 200 Mansion St., with a single gunshot wound to the head, about 9:40 p.m. on June 30, 2015, police said. He died a short time later.

Last week, Poughkeepsie police arrested Trent Yant, 23, also a state prison inmate who formerly lived in Poughkeepsie, in the Floyd case. Yant was charged with the second-degree murder and, like Cummings, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of robbery, conspiracy and tampering with physical evidence.

Cummings is an inmate at the Auburn Correctional Facility, where he is serving for seconddegree murder and robbery, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision website.

According to the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office, Cummings pleaded guilty in February 2016 to the July 21, 2015, shooting death of Willie Trotman, 37, in Poughkeepsie. Cummings was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in May 2016, the prosecutor’s office said.

Yant has been an inmate at the Gowanda Correctional Facility in western New York since April 2016, serving time for robbery, according to the corrections department.

Floyd and Trotman were among seven people shot in the span of approximately a month in the city of Poughkeepsie in mid2015. The other five victims survived.