No arrest 4 days after homicide in Midtown
Four days after a shooting at Cedar and Prospect streets in Midtown left a 27-yearold Kingston man dead, police continued to search for his killer Monday.
Detective Lt. Thierry Croizer said Monday that the Kingston Police Department had no updates to provide about the homicide of Daniel Thomas, which happened the evening of Thursday, Oct. 24.
Croizer said he could not offer further details about the probe because he did not want to risk jeopardizing an investigation that he warned could be “long and tedious.”
He said police continue to work with to potential witnesses in hopes of getting them to share what they saw or heard.
Croizer said Sunday that police expect the investigation to be
drawn out but will work on it until it is solved. He said some members of his team have been working on just a couple of hours of sleep per day over the past several days.
Croizer said previously that Thomas was shot once in the face and pronounced dead at HealthAlliance Hospital’s Broadway Campus. The shooting was reported to police about 8:10 p.m.
On Friday, Croizer said police do not believe there is a threat to the public because the shooting appears to have been the result of a dispute between two people.
Croizer said Sunday that he was increasingly frustrated by the lack of cooperation from potential witnesses.
“I don’t know if it’s a fear of retribution, or the climate we’re in where people don’t trust the police,” he said.
Police say Thomas lived somewhere in Kingston but they weren’t sure exactly where. “He seemed to move from place to place,” Croizer said Saturday.
Thursday’s killing was the first homicide in the city of Kingston since November 2017. Before that, the last killing in the city was in April 2014. Both of those cases resulted in arrests almost immateriality afterward.
Anyone with information about last Thursday’s fatal shooting is asked to call city police at (845) 3311671. Anonymous tips can be made at (845) 331-9944 or through the Submit-ATip website at www.tipsubmit.com/webtipsstart.aspx.