Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon announced today that a jury found Zacceus Cancer guilty on all six charges connected to a Menands shooting last year.
Cancer, 25, was found guilty on Wednesday of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Attempted Assault in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Fourth Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree – Intent to Sell.
Assistant District Attorneys Ryan Carty, of the Major Crimes Unit, and Nick Pittari, of the Street Crimes Unit, prosecuted the case and called on 21 witnesses.
Paramount to the trial, which lasted five days and was followed by about eight hours of deliberation, was video surveillance footage captured from along Broadway that showed Cancer pursuing a white SUV on Sept. 7, 2024.
At the Exit 6 onramp of I-787 near Wards Lane, the white SUV attempted a high-speed turn onto the ramp but crashed over a barrier, coming to rest in the opposite lane.
Video footage shot from Morgan Linen Services Inc. showed Cancer, who was driving a black SUV, open fire on the victim. Menands Police responded to the area just after 4:30 p.m. for reports of shots fired.
Officers found a 35-year-old man with three gunshot wounds who was treated at the scene and taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he survived non-life-threatening injuries.
Cancer had fled the area and traveled north on 787. He was then spotted at a Speedway in Cohoes.
Menands Police were assisted by Albany Police, New York State Police and the New York State Police Intelligence Center, Watervliet Police, Albany County Sheriff’s Office and the Capital Region Crime Analysis Center in the investigation and helped in the Joint Service Rapid Deployment Team arrest of Cancer on Oct. 8, 2024, which yielded a loaded handgun and a quantity of crack cocaine, which the jury also found him guilty of.
Cancer was remanded to the custody of the Albany County Correctional Facility until sentencing on Jan. 23, when he faces up to 40 years in state prison.
