Eduardo Montes was 26 when he was shot to death inside his basement apartment on Second Street in Albany on the night of July 4, 2023. Police responded around 11:45 p.m. to reports of a shooting and found Montes with a gunshot wound to his torso; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbors recalled him as a devoted father to a newborn son who was only a few weeks old.

Investigators say Montes had been involved in a fight with a man he knew inside the apartment that escalated and resulted in Montes being shot with a handgun. On July 20, 2023, Albany police arrested 24-year-old Thaddeus Planas-Dove and charged him with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

If anyone witnessed the struggle that night or has information about what happened inside the apartment, please come forward.