Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz earlier this month vacated a conviction in the shooting death of a teenage girl in 2013. 

The District Attorney’s Office announced on Nov. 17 that the conviction of Shamel Capers had been overturned after the prosecution’s only witness at his trial recanted his account of Capers’ shooting into a bus in South Jamaica on May 18, 2013. The eyewitness, a gang member named Lael Jappa, originally claimed that he saw Capers fire into the Q6 bus on which 14-year-old D’aja Robinson was riding, before the convicted murderer, Kevin McClinton, took the gun and fired into the vehicle.