HAVERSTRAW – A New City man, who was a former employee of TJ McGowan’s Funeral Home at 133 Broadway in Haverstraw, has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of the facility’s manager on Thursday evening.
Town Police alleged that Gerard O’Sullivan, 60, of 7 Scarlett Court in New City confronted general manager Noe Hamer in the rear parking lot and fired several shots at Hamer striking him. The victim died at the scene.
Before police arrived, a civilian on the scene saw what had occurred and fired his licensed handgun at O’Sullivan hitting him in the shoulder.
O’Sullivan was transported to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla for treatment.
As a result of the investigation, O’Sullivan was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful imprisonment, menacing a police officer and resisting arrest.
He was arraigned at bedside by Rockland County Court Judge Larry Schwartz and held without bail. The case will now be presented to a grand jury, said Rockland District Attorney Thomas Walsh, II, who said Hamer “was gunned down in this senseless act of violence.”
Town of Haverstraw Police were assisted in the investigation by the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Patrol Division, Stony Point Police, State Police and the Rockland County DA’s Office.
(Crime scene video: Mark Lieb, Rockland Video Productions)
