YOUNGSTOWN — Desmond D. Cochrane Jr., 25, pleaded guilty Monday to felonious assault with a gun specification and will be sentenced at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 5.

Cochrane was headed for trial Monday before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court but pleaded guilty in exchange for a conspiracy charge being dismissed.

A co-defendant, Aliyah M. Taylor, 24, of Fairmont Avenue, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy and obstructing justice and will be sentenced later.

Prosecutors agreed to recommend that Taylor get 11 to 16 1/2 years in prison as long as she cooperated with prosecutors. Her plea agreement states that she was not the principal offender in the crimes.

The victim of the felonious assault, age 31, reported being shot in the leg on the South Side in September 2019 after a vehicle passed him, then came back. A passenger got out and said, “What’s up?” the man told police.

Then the person fired a gun at the victim about 10 times, according to a police report. The victim ran to a friend’s house on West LaClede, where a woman let him in and called 911.

The conspiracy count Taylor pleaded guilty to states she and Cochrane engaged in a discussion or planning to kill the victim while staging a robbery to conceal Cochrane’s involvement in the crime.

The obstructing justice charge Taylor pleaded guilty to states Taylor hindered the prosecution of another person or assisted another person in committing a crime.