Jurors deliberated for less than two-and-a-half hours before finding 32-year-old Thaddeus Steed not guilty of second-degree murder and second-degree weapon charges in the March 26, 2022 slaying of Miller, who was shot in the chest about 11:30 p.m. inside a back area of The Bradley bar on Fourth Street.
In August, Steed was arrested following an investigation involving police from Troy and Schenectady, parole officers, the Capital Region Crime Analysis Center and the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.
At a trial before County Judge Debra Young, Rensselaer County prosecutors alleged that Steed fired the gun that killed Miller, who died at a local hospital.
Attorney William Roberts, who represented Steed, told the Times Union his client was “ecstatic” about the verdict.
Roberts said he argued that someone other than his client shot Miller.
He said when Miller entered The Bradley bar, for instance, among those present was another man, wounded in the abdomen, who was acquitted of the March 8, 2012 South Troy murder of Miller’s cousin, Ska-Kim Miller, a rapper known as “Pacino G.I.R.” The shooter in that case, Allen McBee, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in exchange for a 15-year prison sentence.
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