Mayoral candidate on new Albany gunfire

  The latest incidents of gunfire on Albany's streets has prompted another call for action by a candidate for Albany Mayor.  Common Council President Shawn Morris reacted Tuesday to gunfire Monday in two sections of the city that sent three victims to the hospital.

Saying its "time to get Albany on the right track"..and "make our streets and neighborhoods safe", the candidate for the Democratic Mayoral nomination said the gunfire  in opposite ends of the city have become too common in too many Albany neighborhoods.

Two men and a teenager were hospitalized by the gun violence with non life threatening injuries.  However Morris, who has made the need for community policing a staple of her campaign platform, has said if she is elected Mayor she would put police officers back on the streets to interact with residents,business owners and especially young people.

Morris said the recent gunfire took place on a sunny day in the middle of a residential neighborhood and in the mid-evening while people are out enjoying the early Summer weather.  She said she lives two blocks from the site of one shooting..and her mother-in-law lives steps away from the other shooting.

Morris along with Common Council member Corey Ellis are two of several announced Democratic candidates challenging incumbent Mayor Jerry Jennings in the upcoming September primary.