A Brown County man has been convicted after shooting a teen who was egging his house last year.
Court Records show that 19-year-old Jackson Rego of Pittsfield was inside a Brown County courtroom on Friday (January 3rd) for a plea hearing.
At the hearing, Rego was convicted due to a no-contest plea for charges of Second-Degree Reckless Injury and Endangering Safety/Reckless Use of a Firearm, both felony offenses.
A third charge was dismissed but read into the record.
The then 18-year-old Rego was arrested in May of last year after shooting “warning shots” with an AR-15 at two teenagers in a car who were throwing eggs at his Pittsfield home.
He believed he fired the shots at the ground; however, one of the shots struck the vehicle’s teen passenger.
The 16-year-old shot in the incident was hit in the ribs while standing through the vehicle’s sunroof.
Rego is next due in court on March 7th for his sentencing hearing.
