Sidney Capolino, left, and Meghan Moore, former college hockey players with the New England College Pilgrims, passed away on March 16, 2024, in a double murder-suicide in Miami. The man who shot them, 40-year-old Luis Napoles, was dating Moore. (New England College)
New England College is mourning the loss of two of its former women’s hockey players in a double murder-suicide over the weekend in Miami.
According to Miami-Dade Police, officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday to the Windsor Ludlam Trail apartment complex in the 7000 block of Southwest 40th Street. When officers arrived, they found a woman outside of an apartment suffering from a gunshot wound. While aiding the woman, cops heard a shot come from inside the apartment. They entered and found another woman deceased, along with a man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The two women and man resided together at the apartment, law enforcement says. They were later identified as Sidney Capolino and Meghan Moore. The suspect was 40-year-old Luis Napoles. Moore and Napoles were dating. Cops did not offer a motive on what led to the killings.
Capolino and Moore played hockey for the New England College Pilgrims and graduated in 2022 and 2021, respectively. The long-time friends apparently made the move south to Florida after graduating.
“Meghan and Sidney were known to many on campus, and we are deeply saddened by this terrible news. We are keeping Sidney and Meghan’s families and friends in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time,” college President Wayne F. Lesperance, Jr. said in a statement.
Moore graduated in 2017 from Barnstable High School in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She played 62 games for New England College over three seasons, tallying two goals and seven assists. Capolino appeared in 79 games over four years, scoring one goal and adding five assists at the Division III school in located in Henniker, New Hampshire.
New England College is on spring break but the school is still offering counseling services to students in need.
“As we pause to process the gravity of the event, it is important that we support and care for each other,” Lesperance said.