Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced that on Friday, December 13, 2019, Cornelius Stubbs, 48, and Carlos Rivera, 47, both of Newburgh, were arraigned before Orange County Court Judge Robert H. Freehill, on an Indictment charging them with crimes including Murder in the First Degree. The charges were in connection with the September 2019 shooting death of a twenty-one year-old female college student inside a New Windsor residence.

Stubbs and Rivera were each charged with Murder in the First Degree, two counts of Attempted Murder in the First Degree, two counts of Murder in the Second Degree, Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, Burglary in the First Degree, Assault in the First Degree, Assault in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, for having broken into the brother’s New Windsor apartment, shooting the brother and fatally shooting his girlfriend.

Stubbs and Rivera face a potential sentence of Life in prison without the possibility of parole on the charge of Murder in the First Degree.

Stubbs and Rivera are next scheduled to appear in court on December 20, 2019. Both were remanded to the Orange County Jail with no bail.