Police identify shooting victim
Authorities say the Midtown resident appears to have been targeted
KINGSTON, N.Y. » The man who was fatally shot Saturday morning in Midtown has been identified as Romero K. Underwood, city police announced Sunday.
Underwood, 47, of 52 St. James St. was shot in his home at approximately 5 a.m. Saturday, Kingston police said. He was taken to Health-Alliance Hospital’s Broadway Campus, where he died from his injury.
It was the fourth shooting death in Kingston in a span of less than nine months.
Kingston police said when officers arrived at his home, they found Underwood suffering from a gunshot wound. He was treated by emergency medical personnel at the scene before being taken to the hospital.
“The homicide investigation so far leads the Kingston Police Department to believe that Mr. Underwood was not a random victim but a target of a crime,” police said in a press release. Police previously said he may have been in a dispute with one or more people.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Kingston police at (845) 3311671 or leave an anonymous message on the department’s Tipline
at (845) 331-4499.
Saturday’s homicide happened just three days after two boys, ages 15 and 17, were shot at the Brichwood Village apartments in Kingston. Both suffered leg wounds and were treated at Health-Alliance Hospital. No arrests have been reported in that case.
Two days before those shootings, the front door of the house at 63 Henry St. in Midtown was struck by a gunshot. No one inside the residence was injured in that incident, according to police.
Underwood’s homicide was the fourth in Kingston since October 2019. Shooting deaths in Midtown on Oct. 24 and Nov. 1 remain unsolved. A fatal shooting in February outside an apartment on Sheehan Court resulted in a murder arrest a month later.
“We also want to assure the public that the members of the Kingston Police Department and other assisting agencies are relentlessly investigating the Myron Moye homicide from November 2019 and Daniel Thomas homicide from October 2019, as well as multiple recent shootings,” police said in the release.