Crime & Safety
Hudson Valley Man Shoots, Kills His Brother
The victim was shot four times with a .45 caliber pistol, authorities said.
GOSHEN, NY — A sentence has been handed down in the shooting death of a Blooming Grove man. Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler said George Bawn, 38, of Blooming Grove was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison for the shooting death of his brother James Bawn, 35, Feb. 6, at Mountain Lodge Park in the Town of Blooming Grove.
Bawn pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Sept. 6.
At the time he pleaded guilty, Bawn said he intentionally killed his brother by shooting him.
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James Bawn had been shot four times in the head and torso with a .45 caliber pistol.
"Our community will be safer during the two decades that this defendant will be in prison," Hoovler said.
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"This was an intentional violent murder of an unarmed man that is even more incomprehensible given the relationship between this defendant and his victim," he said.
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