HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) – The suspect in a January 4 drive by shooting in Hillsdale County entered into a plea bargain agreement on Monday.
According to on line court records, 30-year-old Matthew Christopher Mosby of Quincy entered a guilty plea to a charge of discharging a firearm from a vehicle causing serious impairment.
In exchange for the guilty plea, Hillsdale County Prosecutors will dismiss charges of attempted murder, assault with intent to murder, felony firearm, possession of a short barrel shot gun or rifle and a second count of discharging a firearm from a vehicle causing serious impairment.
The plea agreement calls for Mosby to get a jail sentence which would be capped at one year and he will have to be on probation for five years.
A sentencing hearing was scheduled for May 8.
Michigan State Police investigated the shooting of a 24-year-old man from Hillsdale on Osseo Road near Beecher Road. Mosby is alleged to have driven by and fired several times at the victim’s vehicle with one round penetrating the driver’s side door.
The shooting victim was struck in both legs. State Police said at the time he was transported to Hillsdale Hospital for what were described as critical injuries.
Mosby was later arrested without incident at a residence in Bronson.
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