POUGHKEEPSIE – Shots were fired on Washington Street in the City of Poughkeepsie Wednesday afternoon at approximately 1:50 p.m., sending people scrambling for cover. The incident took place less than 300 feet from the police department headquarters and less than 150 feet from Interfaith Towers, an apartment building populated by seniors.
Police responded immediately and shut down Washington Street between Mansion and Marshall Streets to collect evidence and search for possible victims. Shell casings were recovered and as of 2:50 p.m., no victims had been reported.
The law office at 66 Washington Street had a bullet hole in a second-floor window and a vehicle parked at the Mobil gas station at the corner of Mansion and Washington was also struck by a bullet.
A woman just north of the shooting incident told Mid-Hudson News that she was walking to the gas station when it happened. “I was just coming up the hill past Marshall Street when I hear popping noises that I thought might be gunshots, so I started toward Marshall Street to get out of the way,” said the woman who lives in Poughkeepsie.
Additional officers were reviewing footage from the city’s surveillance cameras in the area that are fed back to police headquarters.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department’s confidential TIPS LINE at 845-451-7577.
Mid-Hudson News video of the crime scene:
