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topicnews · July 18, 2025

Youth crimes calls for his tribute in Albany

Youth crimes calls for his tribute in Albany

The Albany police said a 17-year-old victim who was trapped on the crossfire on July 4thTH Gun Battle died of his injuries on Thursday evening. The death of the teenager comes as a youth crime in Albany continues to tax guides.

Vance Mims III with his family was on the Empire State Plaza of Albany in the fireworks exhibition on July 4. At the end of the celebration, he and three other people were in the middle of a gun battle between two 15-year-olds. Mims was shot in the head and has now succumbed to the injury, the Albany police said on Friday.

Overall, July 4thTH saw 10 people shot and a building lit by one of the 15-year-old's flare weapons. Both 15-year-olds were taken into custody, one for attempted murder, the other, the other, to have shot the flare weapon into a building that burned on the ground with the structure.

The public prosecutor's office of Albany Country, according to the public prosecutor, is improved. Mims' death comes when Albany leaders are still looking for answers to youth violence if new cases do news. Albany police officers in particular crashed when they arrested 15 years on Thursday evening.

In a statement, the chief City Auditor and the Democratic Mayor candidate Dorcey expanded the family of Mims' “deepest condolences” and at the same time said that Albany has to break through the disturbing cycle.

“While many do everything in all of Albany to interrupt violence and build stronger, safer communities, we also have to pause today to honor the life of this young man. We cannot and will not lose sight of the person behind the headline: a son, a friend, a member of our community,” wrote Apply.

The law of legislators in Albany County and the committees of public security organized a special meeting on Thursday evening to discuss solutions. As part of this conversation, managers discussed the state's age law, which can be charged with 16- and 17-year-olds as an adult from 2019, except in cases of the most serious crimes.

District Prosecutor Lee Kindlon says that the law complicated cases with teenagers.

“If an AO, the youthful perpetrator who is initially charged, we only have a very, very short window that we have to worry about. The case to worry about this AO, this individual accusation, usually submitted within a week after the submission of charges, unless we hand over it through a very small window of the occasion to give the AO outlets from the criminal law to the law systems on the law on the law on the law on the law on the law, the legal system in which the legal system received reforms a few years ago.

An arrest in Albany Thursday evening shows the relapse that is often plagued by youth crimes. On June 24thth, A 15-year-old was arrested after firing shots on a passing car in Watervliet. Then on June 28thTHThe Watervliet police say that the same youth accidentally shot himself.

The same teenager was arrested again in Albany on Thursday – this time because of the gun ownership. And when they reacted to the arrest, two of the SUV of Albany Police SUV plunged against each other and met the two vehicles from City Resident Daryo Santiago. Santiago posted a video by The Aftermath on Facebook. “I was awakened my sleep for the craziest car accident on Earth to get outside to see my Mustang and my work car,” he said.

Santiago published on Friday afternoon that he did not hear from APD about damage to his vehicles.

Three officers were injured in the crash.

The chief of police from Albany, Brendan Cox, was not available for a comment.

At the joint meeting of the joint committee on Thursday evening, the sheriff of Albany County, Craig Apple said that the latest border of the youth criminality had tested the law enforcement authorities in the region.

“Our commitment is primarily to follow young children with fatal weapons in the streets of the district, and our important participation would actually bring these children to various adhesion for various prison.