Officials worry the rise in violent crime portends a bloody summer: ‘It’s trauma on top of trauma’

The mayor of Albany never expected to spend her days attending funerals and comforting the families of those killed and injured in a spate of alarming gun violence she finds hard to explain.

“It shocks the conscience,” said Kathy M. Sheehan (D). “The disregard we are seeing for human life. … It’s trauma on top of trauma for our city.”