A well-known resident of The Grove townhouse complex in New Windsor was killed on the morning of April 8, 2026. Larome A. Johnson, 57, a retired New York State corrections officer and father known to friends and family as Tone, was found with multiple gunshot wounds after Town of New Windsor officers responded to reports of shots fired at about 8:59 a.m. He was taken to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, where he was later pronounced dead.

Police described the shooting as the culmination of a long-standing dispute with a neighbor. At the scene officers arrested 47-year-old Thomas J. Crews, who was charged with second-degree murder, arraigned and remanded to custody. The New York State Police and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office are assisting the Town of New Windsor Police Department, and authorities say they believe this was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing threat to the public.

Johnson’s family remembered him as a loving husband and father who had survived cancer and COVID-19 and whose smile and personality filled a room. He and his family had been scheduled to close on a new home about an hour after the shooting.

Did anyone in The Grove see or hear anything that morning that could help investigators?