Schenectady man sentenced in Albany shooting

The Albany County District Attorney’s Office says 24-year-old Deonte Dent of Schenectady has been sentenced to a determinate term of 12 years in State Prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder.

Dent was additionally sentenced to five years of post-release supervision, said the DA’s Office.

Dent pleaded guilty on August 15 for second-degree attempted murder, in full satisfaction to a four-count indictment.

The DA’s Office says the indictment also included two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of first-degree promoting prison contraband.

In the plea, the DA’s Office says Dent admitted that on or about September 10, 2023, while he was in the area of Quail and Bradford Streets in Albany, he attempted to cause the death of another person when he shot the victim with a handgun.

Judge McDonough of Albany County Supreme Court made the following statement:

“The court is obviously concerned with the fact that even after pleading guilty, even after understanding that you’re facing a sentence that could be as little as 8, or as much as 12, you respond to probation by saying ‘things happen.’ Considering the defendant’s cavalier response to shooting at someone, and hitting someone, I sentence the defendant to 12 years determinate incarceration.”