Wendall Ponce, 30, was found dead from gunshot wounds inside a residence on Stanwix Street in Albany on May 4, 2022. His death was the city’s second homicide that year. Nearby on Bogart Terrace officers found 40-year-old Douglas Bynum with multiple gunshot wounds to his lower extremities; Bynum had a loaded 9mm handgun and was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators said the two men were known to each other and that the shooting was not random. On May 5, Bynum was arrested at the hospital and arraigned there on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon before being remanded to the Albany County Sheriff’s Department while still hospitalized. The specific circumstances that led to the deadly encounter remain under investigation.

Did anyone in Albany know Ponce or Bynum or see activity on Stanwix Street or Bogart Terrace that day?