City paintball spree

Teenagers arrested after victim struck in face, police say

Three teenagers are accused of shooting people with paintballs in Albany Tuesday night.

City police said they were called to Forest and New Scotland avenues after a man was shot in the face with a paintball gun around 7 p.m. Tuesday. The report was one of several called in throughout the city, authorities said.

The 28-year-old victim told officers that a group traveling in a car shot him in the face before they punched and kicked him several times. He had bruises and “pain to his body” and was evaluated by emergency medical personnel, police said.

Detectives later pulled over a car matching the victim’s description near Myrtle Avenue and Partridge Street and determined it was the one involved in the incidents. Four youths were charged: The driver, a 17-year-old boy from Albany, was issued traffic citations and released, police said.

Three male occupants, a 13-year-old from Troy, a 15-year-old from Troy and a 16-year-old from Albany, were each charged with one count of seconddegree assault for the Forest Avenue shooting, police said. A paintball gun was recovered, police said.

The three occupants were released and are scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 16 in Family Court.

Properties were also damaged in the spree, said police, who did not specify the locations or the extent of the damage.

Arrest in brawl

In an unrelated incident, police arrested a young man after a brawl Tuesday night on Lark Street. Officers responded to Lark and Second streets for reports of a large fight shortly before 10 p.m., then dispersed the group, police said.

A preliminary investigation determined passengers in a car that had just left the scene had a handgun. Police stopped the suspected vehicle moments later at Clinton Avenue and Lark Street, where the driver, 18, had a loaded .38 caliber revolver, authorities said.

He also had a suspended driver’s license, police said. He was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and weapons possession counts.