TIMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 28, No 36
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SEPTEMBER 7 - 13, 2016
NFA
girls
win
Page 43
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ONE DOLLAR
Flying high
Page 22
SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
American Flyers
Carl Aiello
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds streaked across the skies, Friday afternoon, practicing for the weekend air show at Stewart Airport. The threat of heavy rain held off both Saturday and
Sunday, as thousands poured in, and many more set up folding chairs along Route 17K and other vantage points near the airport, to watch the show. More photos on page 3.
Recent high school graduate dies in shooting
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
An 18-year-old New Windsor resident
died of a gunshot wound last week,
two months after he graduated from
Newburgh Free Academy.
Responding to reports of shots fired
around 11 p.m. on Aug. 30, city police
found Keyshan Gayle at Fullerton and
Third Street with a gunshot wound to his
back. He was transported to nearby St.
Luke’s Cornwall Hospital where he was
pronounced dead.
Police have ruled the shooting a
homicide. “I am absolutely horrified that
another promising young person has been
taken from us too soon,” Congressman
Sean Patrick Maloney said in a statement
shortly after the shooting.
“Keyshan had just graduated and was
preparing to go to college – he was poised
to open the next chapter of his young life
– but he has been robbed of his future.
My heart breaks for his family, friends
and fellow graduates at Newburgh Free
Academy. We must stop burying our
children.”
In June, Maloney called on the
federal Bureau of Justice Assistance
to immediately fund “Shot Spotter”
technology for the City of Newburgh
Police. The Shot Spotter system provides
real-time information on shots fired
using sensors providing data on time and
location. City police applied to the BJA for
a grant to purchase the system in April.
The city has upgraded its surveillancecamera system, recently adding three,
new video cameras to its surveillance
system earlier this year.
Anyone with information about
the shooting may contact the City of
Newburgh Police at 845-561-3131 or call
the City of Newburgh Police confidential
tips hotline at 845-569-7555.
WWW.MIDHUDSONTIMES.COM
Keyshan Gayle