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Maurice Steward, of Albany, was charged with second-degree attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon last week in the July 9 shooting, the Albany County District Attorney's Office said on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
Police said Steward and another man got into an argument at a home in the 300 block of Second Ave. around 5:15 p.m. Steward ran away but returned a short time later with a pistol and shot the 19-year-old, the prosecutor said.
The bullet hit the teen in the foot.
Steward ran away after the shooting, but police caught up with him a short time later at a home in the 400 block of Myrtle Avenue, authorities said.
A judge ordered him held on $150,000 cash bail, the prosecutor's office said.
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