A Brown County man has been sentenced after shooting a teenager last year.
19-year-old Jackson Rego of Pittsfield was present in a Brown County courtroom for his sentencing hearing on Friday (March 7th) after being convicted in January due to pleading no contest to charges of Second-Degree Reckless Injury and Engendering Safety due to the Reckless Use of a Firearm.
Rego was sentenced to spend three years in prison, followed by eight years of extended supervision, after shooting a teenager.
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, however, the gunshot wound was non-life-threatening.
