Youngstown man pleads guilty to reduced charge in ’07 shooting death

YOUNGSTOWN — The driver of a car from which shots were fired, killing one 17-year-old and wounding another, in a drive-by shooting on Ford Avenue has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of obstructing justice.

Robert Jackson, 20, of East Evergreen Avenue, pleaded guilty today to the third-degree felony, which was substituted for an aggravated murder charge in the May 26, 2007, death of Maressia Patterson of Upland Avenue.

Jackson entered his plea before Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence him at a later date. Jackson, who remains free on bond, could receive probation or one to five years in prison.

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