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WILKES-BARRE — A city man who shot another man in the neck during a fight about a girl last year pleaded guilty in Luzerne County Court.
Trymaine Cox, 20, street address not listed on court papers, pleaded guilty to a single count of aggravated assault. Prosecutors withdrew a second count of aggravated assault and charges of reckless endangerment and firearms not to be carried without a license against Cox.
Judge David Lupas said Cox will be sentenced June 5.
Wilkes-Barre police alleged Cox shot Jamal Fowikes in the area of 55 Madison St. on May 20.
Fowikes and a witness, Brandon Darius, told police the shooting was the result of a fist fight the night before about a girl, according to the criminal complaint.
Fowikes sustained a gunshot wound to his neck as the round exited through his jaw, police said.
Police found an unresponsive Fowikes bleeding on the front porch of a house and Darius kneeling over him screaming for help. Darius identified the gunman by a street name, “Trey Pound,” the complaint says.
Police alleged in the complaint Fowikes was working at a fast food restaurant on East Northampton Street when Cox arrived wanting to fight on May 19. Fowikes told police the fight was about a girl he had dated six months before she began dating Cox.
The next day, Darius called Fowikes saying Cox was on Monroe Street. Fowikes remained angry about the fight the night before and drove to the area finding Cox on Madison Street.
Fowikes told police he wanted to fight Cox again and the two men walked to a field. The next thing Fowikes said he remembered was waking up in a hospital, the complaint says.