A dispute between neighbors in New Windsor turned deadly on the morning of April 8, 2026. Larome A. Johnson, 57, a retired corrections officer, was shot multiple times outside his home on Hawthorn Way just before 9 a.m. Responders transported him to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The shooting was the town’s first homicide in six years.

Johnson, known as Tone to friends and family, and his family had been due to close on a new home about an hour after the shooting. He had survived cancer and COVID, and a GoFundMe was set up to help with funeral expenses. Police say the attack followed a long-standing dispute with a neighbor at The Grove townhouse complex; records show at least one prior dispute about three years earlier.

Police took 47-year-old neighbor Thomas J. Crews into custody at the scene and charged him with second-degree murder. Crews was arraigned at his hospital bedside and remanded to the Orange County Jail without bail while being treated for a possible heart attack. The investigation is ongoing and authorities say there is no further threat to the public.

If anyone has information about the dispute between the neighbors or the shooting, please come forward to law enforcement.