ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Albany County District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday that Christian Keith of Troy was sentenced to 13 years in state prison in connection to two separate shootings in Albany. Keith, 19, was indicted last May.
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Keith admitted to shooting a 30-year-old man near the intersection of Clinton Avenue and Lark Street in Albany on July 30, 2024. The victim survived after undergoing emergency surgery.
Keith, who was identified as a suspect in the shooting but went unfound by police for several months, confessed to firing a gun at someone who was sitting inside a parked car on Lark Drive by Manning Boulevard on March 11, 2025. Albany Police were able to locate and arrest him on Sheridan Avenue later that afternoon, leading to him being charged with both incidents.
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Judge Andra Ackerman referenced Keith’s prior comments expressing satisfaction for shooting the initial victim, stating “I’m very concerned about your statements about the victim, as I understand a bullet remains lodged and is too dangerous to remove, and undoubtedly, he will have repercussions his entire life. But you thought that the tables were now even in a sense, and that says to me that you have zero insight into the crime you committed against him. It’s unfathomable to me that the tables are even now.”
“The nature of the defendant’s conduct was particularly disturbing because he fired a machine gun at the victim’s back, narrowly missing his heart,” Assistant District Attorney Stephen Lydon said. “And instead of that incident having any deterring effect on his behavior, only about eight months later, he fired at a second victim.”
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The Troy man pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and one count of tampering with physical evidence. Judge Ackerman also ordered Keith to serve five years of post-release supervision following his prison sentence…