ALBANY, N.Y. - The suspect involved in Friday's police-related shooting has been charged by detectives with menacing a police officer.
Albany police say 22-year-old Richard Carter, of 9 Pinehurst Avenue, was shot by officers after he pulled what appeared to be a black semi-automatic handgun from the small of his back and pointed it at three officers in the rear parking lot of the Campus View Apartments on Brevator Street on Friday. The gun was later learned to be a black pellet gun.
The officers were responding to a domestic call and were trying to interview Carter in relation to the incident just prior to the shooting, police say.
Carter is still hospitalized at Albany Medical Center. He was arraigned at the hospital on Monday and is now is under the watch of the Albany County Sheriff's Office.
The officers involved in the incident, Officers Nate Pendleton, Mark Reith and Richard Romand, are currently on administrative leave as the department's internal investigation continues.
Carter is charged with Menacing 1st-degree.
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