New Windsor Man Arrested After Abdominal Stabbing at Old Forge Hill Apartments

New Windsor police found a 51-year-old man with a stab wound to the abdomen at Old Forge Hill Apartments in Vails Gate after responding to a reported assault Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Emergency personnel transported the victim to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh.

The initial account of the Feb. 20 incident did not include suspect names, arrests, or charge information. The brief report supplied to news outlets notes only that police responded to a reported assault at the Old Forge Hill complex and that the victim was taken to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall for treatment.

The Old Forge Hill Apartments complex was the scene of a separate, well-documented stabbing more than a year earlier. A Times Herald-Record report by Mike Randall says New Windsor officers responded to the complex just before 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2025 and found a 45-year-old man “bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds to his chest, face and hands.” That victim was transported by New Windsor EMS to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh for treatment.

The Times Herald-Record account identifies a suspect in the Jan. 2, 2025 attack as Khiyan Bascus, 22, of New Windsor, and lists charges of attempted second-degree murder, second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. The story says officers recovered the weapons used in the attack, and that Bascus was arraigned and sent to the Orange County jail in lieu of $125,000 cash bail, a $300,000 secured bond or a $750,000 partially secured bond pending further court action. Randall’s story also notes that New Windsor police were assisted at the scene by the New York State Police, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Town of Cornwall Police Department and the Town of Blooming Grove Police Department K-9 unit.

Other outlets published conflicting details about the Jan. 2025 case. A Newsbreak snippet described the suspect as a 38-year-old New Windsor man, and a Midhudsonnews excerpt named Samuel Green in connection with a stabbing at the same complex. Those versions diverge from the Times Herald-Record naming of Khiyan Bascus; the differing reports have not been reconciled in the material provided.

Both the Feb. 20, 2026 and Jan. 2, 2025 victims were taken to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall in Newburgh, underscoring the hospital’s role in local trauma response for New Windsor incidents. The Jan. 2025 Times Herald-Record Facebook post about that attack registered six reactions, five comments and three shares on the outlet’s page.

Public records from the New Windsor Police Department, Orange County court dockets and Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital would clarify whether any arrests or charges are associated with the Feb. 20 incident and reconcile the conflicting identities reported in the Jan. 2025 case. Absent those records in the initial report, officials have not yet provided further details on suspect identities, charges, or the current medical status of the Feb. 20 victim.