An alleged drug-gang member will soon stand trial for murder in the same Queens courtroom where he once tossed a chair at a prosecutor.
Jury selection begins tomorrow for the case against Michael Antinuche, a violent felon accused of the Oct. 1, 1999, execution-style killing of small-time criminal Michael Seyfert.
Antinuche, an alleged member of a local drug gang called the Young Guns, will face off against Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal, the prosecutor he hurled a chair at and called “a dead man” following a November 2000 conviction on weapons charges.
Prosecutors say Antinuche, who is serving 25 years to life as a violent repeat offender for the weapons rap, shot Seyfert, 26, three times in the back of the head because he believed the victim was a police informant.
Antinuche, 30, at first told cops that another man shot the victim after luring him to an abandoned Long Island Rail Road yard in Ridgewood, but later confessed to pulling the trigger himself.
“The case is strictly circumstantial, and the truth will be brought out at trial,” said defense lawyer John Wallenstein.