Miami murder-suicide victims ID’d as ex-college hockey players Sidney Capolino and Meghan Moore
The inseparable victims in a gruesome double murder in Miami over the weekend have been identified as ex-college hockey players from New York and Massachusetts.
Roommates Sidney Capolino, 23, of Pawling, New York, and Meghan Moore, 25, of Centerville, Massachusetts, were shot dead by Moore’s enraged former boyfriend at their apartment complex, police said.
Restaurant worker Luis Nopales, 40, fatally shot Moore — with whom he’d had a romantic relationship — outside the residence before he walked inside and murdered Capolino, then turned the gun on himself.
They all lived in the apartment together, police said.
Capolino and Moore, described by relatives as best friends, were ice hockey teammates at New England College in New Hampshire.
“Meghan and Sidney were known to many on campus, and we are deeply saddened by this devastating news. We are keeping Sidney and Meghan’s families and friends in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time,” school president Dr. Wayne F. Lesperance Jr. said in a statement.
Moore had graduated in 2021 and Capolino in 2022, the school confirmed.
“I can’t speak right now,” a relative of Moore said Tuesday when reached by phone.
“We’re just shocked.”
Police responded to the girls’ apartment complex in Coral Gables at 9 a.m. Saturday after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots.
They found Moore gravely injured just outside their apartment door when another shot rang out.
Officers entered the residence and found both Capolino and Nopales dead from gunshot wounds.
A college friend of Moore said she and Nopales had a volatile relationship.
“You could tell that there were some issues there,” she said.
“But not to this point. We can’t believe this happened.”
Records show Nopales was evicted from a Coral Gables apartment in late 2023 due to non-payment.
In a note to the court, he said he was unable to pay his $2,300 monthly rent because he lost his restaurant job.
Nopales wrote he had just gotten a new job and would soon be able to clear the debt, but he was later booted from the apartment.
Police have yet to reveal an official motive for the slayings.
