Albany’s police chief and mayor gave an update Wednesday on a string of recent shootings in the city.

There have been at least three shootings in the last three days, involving four victims. That includes one person who died.

The most recent shooting happened Tuesday evening on Myrtle Avenue and Grand Street. Two boys, ages 13 and 14, were shot. Thankfully, they’re expected to be OK.

“The victims from last night would not be intended targets, but they tend to go to certain areas and create issues,” said Albany Police Chief Brendan Cox. “Those places, we have already increased our police activity, and we will continue to increase our police activity to ensure these incidents do not happen again.”

Cox said the areas where the shootings happened were not random.

Patrols are being increased in those areas, Cox said.

“I’m a huge proponent of community policing. That is our philosophy, and we do want to increase the way that we provide community policing efforts,” he said.

Right now, police would not say if all the shootings are connected.

Meanwhile, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan is voicing frustration.

“We want to stress that this is serious. We want to stress that it’s important that we have cooperation, that we not normalize gun violence,” she said. “This is not normal for any place, and it shouldn’t be normal in any neighborhood in the city of Albany.”

Sheehan, who is not running for re-election, said gun violence will always be a challenge. “I think that if the expectation is that anyone sitting behind the mayor’s desk at 24 Eagle St. can eliminate gun violence, they will be sorely disappointed,” she said.

Putting young people on a better path will be key to help stop it, according to Sheehan.

“Gun violence was with us before I became mayor, and sadly, I worry that gun violence will continue after I’m mayor.”

“What we can do is ensure that we are responding to the community, listening to the community, providing the resources that both law enforcement and our other departments say that they need in order to ensure that young people are on a path to opportunity, not on a path to violence, or as we say, the school-to-prison pipeline,” she continued.