FIREARMS VIOLATOR SENTENCED.(CAPITAL REGION)

ALBANY -- A city man who was acquitted of murdering a teenager was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to six years in prison for firearms violations.

Marshall Anson Ayers, 25, was handed the term by District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn for his guilty plea in August to possession of a firearm as a felon.

The charge stemmed from a June 3, 2001, homicide in which Ayers allegedly shot and killed 17-year-old Broderick Greene on Colonie Street in Albany.

An Albany County Court jury acquitted Ayers of second-degree murder in February 2002. Prosecutors alleged Ayers shot Greene and then drove away. Ayers testified he …