Rensselaer woman sentenced for attempted murder in 2025 shooting

A Rensselaer woman was sentenced to more than a decade in state prison after a jury found her guilty of attempted murder in an August 2025 shooting. 13, 2025, later learning that a 24-year-old woman had been taken to Albany Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound in her lower back.

A jury convicted Smith of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon after a four-day trial in May.