Albany County man convicted of assault dies in prison

A former Albany County man convicted of assault in 2021 was found dead in a Greene County prison last week.

Zechariah Squires, 34, was pronounced dead around 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 2 at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed on Tuesday.

Squires, formerly of Coeymans, was serving a sentence of 7 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in March 2021 to second-degree strangulation and torturing or injuring animals…

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