Staff photo / Ed Runyan Titus L. Miller, 23, of Pearl Street, with his attorney, Pete Klimas, during Miller’s plea hearing Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Miller pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated assault for firing a gun at a car and hitting a woman who suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Miller will be sentenced later.

YOUNGSTOWN — A Pearl Street man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of attempted aggravated assault, a fifth-degree felony, and a gun specification, in connection to the April 11, 2023, shooting of a woman.

Titus L. Miller, 23, was indicted on more serious charges after he fired a gun at a passing car, hitting a female passenger inside, causing non-life-threatening injuries.

But Miller was allowed to plead down to the low-level felony and get a recommendation for incarceration of 18 months. Prosecutors also will not oppose Miller serving one year and then getting out on judicial release, said Pat Kiraly, assistant Mahoning County prosecutor. The plea calls for Miller to serve his time in the Mahoning County jail, Kiraly said.

Miller also will pay restitution for damage done to a car that was hit by the “stray gunfire,” Kiraly said.

Kiraly told Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge John Durkin the reason for the significant reduction is the person driving the car and Miller had been engaged in an “ongoing feud” for a couple of months, and Miller’s house “was shot up the night before. The next day he sees this vehicle, the victim, and he shoots at him.”

Kiraly said Miller has no prior criminal history “and probably was acting on impulses. We recognize that he knows what he did is wrong.” Kiraly said that is why prosecutors allowed Miller to plead down to a one-year gun specification instead of a three-year gun specification.

A gun specification has to be served prior to and consecutive to the prison sentence for the attempted aggravated assault.

The judge said he would honor the jointly recommended sentence as long as Miller shows up for his sentencing hearing at 1:30 p.m. April 25 and stays out of trouble.

The judge said Miller has accepted responsibility for his actions, and the case has “unique facts in mitigation.”

The charges that were dismissed were discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises, two counts of felonious assault, aggravated assault and two misdemeanor counts of criminal damaging. Miller’s earlier charges could have resulted in a prison sentence of about 15 years if he had been convicted.