Four arrested in Poughkeepsie homicide tied to deadly April shooting

Four arrests have turned the April shooting near Stitzel Field into a murder case with multiple named suspects, and police now say the killing points to more than one shooter. Sharnado Green, Peter Green, Paul Green and Tyrese Hall were taken into custody on June 8 and charged in the death of 46-year-old Carl Chambers of Marlboro, who was shot after gunfire broke out near a local adult soccer game in Poughkeepsie.

The new arrests sharpen the theory investigators have been building for weeks: this was not a single isolated shot, but a public confrontation in which several people exchanged gunfire. Police said at least three different weapons were fired, including a high-powered rifle, and that another man, 31, was wounded in the leg and survived in stable condition. Chambers was shot in the chest and taken to the hospital in a private vehicle before being pronounced dead.

The shooting erupted around 6:30 to 6:40 p.m. on April 19 near Stitzel Field on Lincoln Avenue, with a crowd gathered for the soccer match and dispatchers receiving a Raven gunshot-detection alert along with multiple 911 calls. Witnesses told police that shots were exchanged across the street from the field, and officers said the people directly involved fled before police arrived. The case stayed active as detectives worked through the timeline gaps left by a fast-moving scene and conflicting accounts from the crowd.

The June 8 arrests came in a coordinated operation involving the Joint Poughkeepsie SWAT Team, the United States Marshals Service, New York State Police, the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department, the City of Poughkeepsie Community Policing Unit, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office and the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities said the four men were held at Dutchess County Jail after being charged with murder, and detectives continued to ask anyone with information to call the confidential tip line at (845) 451-7577. What began as gunfire at a neighborhood soccer game has now become a four-defendant homicide case, with the next steps shifting from the street to court.