Man gets up to life in prison for 2020 Albany murder

A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for a 2020 murder.

Joseph Seeley, 28, was convicted in September on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after a jury trial.

Seeley shot and killed Jimmy Moore on Sept. 23, 2020 in the area of First Street and Lexington Avenue.

Moore’s mother, Gwen Moore, spoke at sentencing.

“The Bible says, ‘Forgive those who trespass against you’, and that’s what you did to me…You devastated my whole family, especially his two daughters who no longer have their dad. He missed their special moments, their Sweet 16, their prom, their graduations. My two daughters no longer have their brother, their baby brother, because he was the youngest. I no longer have my only son,” she said in a statement released by the Albany County District Attorney’s Office.

Assistant District Attorney Jessica Blain-Lewis said Moore was a “kind soul” and it was a senseless act.

Judge Roger McDonough said that Moore’s actions also had an impact on his mother, who he said effectively had a medical seizure when the verdict was issued.

Sadly, from the court’s perspective, this seems to be just another page in another chapter of the book that’s constantly being written in this city, and in all of our cities here in the United States, of the downward spiral of our communities, our culture. We’re eating ourselves. We’re destroying ourselves,” he said.