Crime & Safety
20-year-old Killed Trying to Break Up New Year's Party Fight
His death was called the first homicide of 2016 in the lower Hudson Valley.
20 year old Justin Speights was killed at a party in the early hours of Jan. 1 in Orange County.
It is reported that he was trying to break up a fight at a party in Crawford.
He was a volunteer firefighter in the Silver Lake Fire Department, according Orange and Rockland Fire’s Facebook page.
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His death is being investigated as a homicide.
This is an active investigation and if anyone has information, please contact the New York state police at 845-344-5300.
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