Schenectady

A 27-year-old man was shot multiple times in the chest early Sunday, the fourth shooting in Hamilton Hill in the last two weeks.

Schenectady police said they were called to the area of 532 Schenectady St. at 12:56 a.m. for a report of a person who had been shot. The victim was treated at the scene by the Schenectady Fire Department and transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he is in stable condition, police said.

City leaders had just held an anti-violence rally in Hamilton Hill on Friday following a shooting Monday that killed 18-year-old Kusaan Tolliver in the same block of Schenectady Street. Another man was shot in the buttocks four days earlier, also in the 500 block of Schenectady Street. He survived.

Shots also damaged a storefront and a car on nearby Albany Street overnight July 26.

"There is a small group of people who are engaged in a course of conduct that just has such tragic and devastating effects on individuals, families and the community as a whole," Mayor Gary McCarthy said at the rally Friday. "There's a fascination with guns that just should not be there."

Police Chief Brian Kilcullen also said there are many who know details about the Tolliver shooting, but hadn't come forward to provide the details needed to make arrests.

"We need people to talk to us, we need people who were there to talk to us, so we can make that arrest and make this a safe community," Kilcullen said Friday.

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