On New Year’s Day 2023, 41-year-old Daniel Spotards of Plattekill, New York, was shot twelve times at close range and left to die at the end of his driveway on Campbell Drive Extension. His body was found the next day, January 2, 2023, by a sanitation worker who called 911. Spotards, a lifelong area resident and a graphics automotive technician, was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators linked two brothers to the killing: 30-year-old Junando Dawkins of Newburgh and his elder brother, 34-year-old Juwaugh Dawkins of Jacksonville, Florida. Residents found discarded cell phones near the scene; cell phone location data and recovered firearm parts from the Hudson River containing DNA tied to Juwaugh were cited as key evidence. Junando was arrested in March 2023 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina; Juwaugh was returned from Florida in June 2023. Both were indicted for Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree. The motive for the killing has not been released.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything unusual around Campbell Drive Extension on New Year’s Day 2023?