Prince Cureton, 32, a Black male, was shot just before 1 a.m. on June 16, 2025, while standing in front of a residence near Third Avenue and Sloan Street in Albany. Officers responded to reports of gunfire and later learned Cureton had arrived at Albany Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was pronounced dead at the hospital. The killing was one of the city’s early-year homicides and unfolded on a residential stretch where neighbors awoke to the sound of shots and the flash of
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