South Side man pleads guilty to lesser charges in 2006 shooting death

YOUNGSTOWN — Aggravated murder and attempted murder counts have been dropped against a man who had been charged in a South Side shooting.

Reshaud Biggs, however, has pleaded guilty to abduction in that incident and to being a felon in illegal possession of a gun.

Biggs, 22, of East Florida Avenue, pleaded guilty today before Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence him at 10 a.m. March 4.

Biggs was accused in the Dec. 30, 2006, incident, in which Anthony Perez, 31, of Plazaview Court, was fatally shot, and gunfire was directed at Perez’ brother, William Burr, 27, of East Midlothian Boulevard, Struthers, as Perez and Burr detailed a car on Clearmount Drive.

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