Andrew Baptiste was initially accused of shooting at a witness who would testify against his cousin.
TRENTON - A man accused of firing a gun at a car during a chase last year has pleaded guilty and is facing three years in prison, authorities said.
Andrew Baptiste (Courtesy of the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office) Andrew Baptiste, 26, of Ewing, pleaded guilty Monday to fourth-degree aggravated assault - a charge meaning he pointed a gun at another person, according to Mercer County Prosecutors. The plea deal calls for a three-year prison sentence.
Baptiste was driving in Trenton in January 2015 while following and shooting at a car containing multiple people, police said at the time. The chase ended when the other car crashed on Grant Street and two of the people inside fled the scene, police said.
Baptiste was arrested and charged with attempted murder and witness tampering.
Man accused in shooting was targeting witness
Prosecutors have said one of the men in the car - who may have been Baptiste's target - was cooperating with authorities in a case against Baptiste's cousin. The cousin had been accused in a 2011 attempted murder case and the man was set to testify against him that month, prosecutors have said.
Due to the jail credit he has already accrued, Baptiste will serve about a year and a half in prison.
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