PHILIPSTOWN – A Philipstown man is in jail, accused of stabbed another man in the heart during a fight between neighbors over noise.
Raymond Hickey, 28, of 9 North Albany Post Road, apartment C in Philipstown, was charged by Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies with felony assault following the 2 a.m., Sunday, incident in which he allegedly stabbed a 29-year-old man, who lives in another apartment in the same building.
Deputies were called to the apartment house at 2:15 a.m. and found the victim bleeding profusely from a chest wound. He was transported by ambulance to MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie where doctors performed emergency surgery to repair a laceration to his heart. The victim remained hospitalized in stable condition following surgery, police said.
According to investigators, Hickey and his neighbor became embroiled in an argument over noise, and a confrontation ensured outside the apartments. The dispute escalated into a physical altercation and Hickey allegedly stabbed the other man in the chest with a knife, which police recovered.
Hickey was sent to the Putnam County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond.
