HILLTOWNS — Two Hilltown men have been charged with attempted murder following an early morning drive-by shooting on Sunday that wounded a woman, police say.

Lane J. Stannard of Berne and Joel M. Keeny of Medusa, both 24, have each been charged with two felonies — second-degree attempted murder and fourth-degree conspiracy — as well as with a misdemeanor: fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

According to a release from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, events unfolded this way: At about 1:10 a.m. on Aug. 10, deputies went to a home on Sickle Hill Road in Berne because a woman had been shot in the arm.

The shooting occurred as the victim, who has not been named by police, was driving near the intersection of routes 85 and 6 in Rensselaerville when shots were intentionally fired from another vehicle, occupied by Stannard and Keeny.

They “intentionally opened fire with a .223 caliber rifle,” the release said. “Multiple rounds struck the victim’s vehicle and one bullet hit the victim in the arm.”

“The vehicle sustained multiple impacts, and one bullet narrowly missed the operator by passing through the headrest,” Sheriff Craig Apple posted on Facebook along with pictures of her shattered windshield.

She received treatment in the early morning hours at Albany Medical Center and has since been discharged from the hospital, Apple posted on Sunday.

Keeny and Stannard had fled the scene but were located by sheriff’s investigators and taken into custody. Their vehicle was found in Massachusetts.

They were arraigned in Rensselaerville Town Court on Sunday.

In his Sunday post, Apple praised the “excellent work by our investigators who worked diligently day and night to apprehend the two subjects.”

Stannard, who lived in Medusa, had been in the news in 2020 for prominently displaying a Confederate flag, which distressed some of his neighbors.

Stannard told The Enterprise at the time, “It’s mainly a symbol of me being able to do whatever I want. I’ve had problems with [neighbors] this whole time so I knew it was going to kind of make some statement that it’s my house.”

The Confederate flag displayed on Stannard’s Rensselaerville home was accompanied by a prisoners-of-war remembrance flag; a flag that depicted an automatic rifle and was captioned “Come and Take It”; and a “Trump 2020” flag.

Joel Keeny was only in The Enterprise once, as a child in 2010, wearing a handmade chef’s hat, proud of the mac-and-cheese wings he had made during the Nature’s Way Summer Program in Rensselaerville.