Three Newburgh residents arrested in connection with April shootings
Three Newburgh residents were charged after gunfire on Lander Street, while detectives were already probing separate April shootings elsewhere in the city.
Newburgh police arrested Terence Walker, 18, Willie Cousar, 19, and a 17-year-old juvenile after a warrant search at 162 Lander Street on April 20, turning two April shootings into one larger public-safety case centered on gunfire in residential blocks.
All three were charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Police said the search at 162 Lander Street followed a ShotSpotter alert at about 2:25 a.m. on April 18, when the system reported five gunshots in the area of the address. Another shooting had already drawn police attention on April 14 in the area of 137 Lander Street.
The arrests mattered because the gunfire was not isolated to one corner of the city. The Lander Street incidents came as Newburgh City Police were also working a separate shooting investigation from April 4 in the area of Third Street and City Terrace, where the Newburgh City Police Non-Fatal Shooting Task Force recovered several spent shell casings. The next morning, at 7 a.m. on April 5, police responded to a man with a severe head laceration. He was taken to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital.
At the time of that earlier report, police said no arrests had been made. Investigators asked anyone with information to call 845-569-7529 and said the calls could remain anonymous, underscoring how much of the casework still depended on community tips before the later warrant search produced arrests.
Taken together, the April cases show how quickly violence in Newburgh can spread across multiple neighborhoods and dates, from Third Street and City Terrace to 137 Lander Street and 162 Lander Street. The arrests suggest detectives were able to move from responding to gunfire to identifying people tied to a specific location and weapon-related charges, even as questions remain about whether the shootings were connected or part of the same cycle of retaliation. For residents living near those blocks, the city’s challenge is not only solving each case, but preventing the next round of shots from echoing through another neighborhood.
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