An Atlantic City man admitted Thursday that he wounded a 16-year-old girl in a shooting last year.
Tyron Outlaw said he did not know the girl, but gave no reason for shooting the stranger.
The affidavit of probable cause at the time said it was part of an ongoing dispute among a group of girls that resulted in at least four fights with Outlaw coming to the scene. The shooting happened in the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue, where Outlaw lived.
A woman was also wounded in that shooting, but was not mentioned during the plea.
He could have faced 25 years under the No Early Release Act.
Instead, under Thursday’s plea the state agreed to an aggregate sentence that has him facing five years do five years on the charge of possession of a weapon by a certain person not to possess a weapon, Superior Court Judge Bernard DeLury explained during the plea.
A 2014 drug conviction bars Outlaw from legally owning a gun.
He additionally pleaded guilty to a 2020 drug raid at his North Michigan Avenue home, where police seized 340 bags of heroin possibly laced with fentanyl. Police reported at the he also had 22 gram of cocaine.
Outlaw, 45, was released pending his sentencing Jan. 5, against the state’s objections.
