YOUNGSTOWN — A Detroit Avenue man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of felonious assault in connection to an October incident outside the Mahoning County jail in which he fired a gun at two women, hitting their car.

Gregory L. Lincoln, 24, will be sentenced 9 a.m. April 4. Prosecutors have recommended he receive five to six years in prison.

One of the felonious assault charges has a gun specification. In exchange for Lincoln’s plea, one other gun specification was dismissed as was a misdemeanor charge of criminal damaging or endangering.

Lincoln entered his guilty pleas before Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

A Youngstown police report states officers were called at 4:42 p.m. Oct. 1, to the jail for a woman reporting a man she knows shot a gun at her in the jail’s parking lot. She was a passenger in another woman’s car. The other woman was driving.

The woman drove across Fifth Avenue to the Youngstown State University Police Department after the gunfire.

The victim said she went to the jail to visit her boyfriend and was sitting in her friend’s vehicle when she saw Lincoln, her ex-boyfriend, pull into the parking lot and stop in front of her car, the report states.

With his car window down, he fired a gunshot at her from inside his car. He then parked his car, got out and fired at least once more, the report states.

Prosecutors said the car was hit by two bullets.

Deputies with the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office found a cellphone that belonged to Lincoln in the jail parking lot; it had fallen from his car, the report states. Youngstown police also collected one spent bullet shell casing in the parking lot. The event was captured on surveillance video at the jail, which is also the headquarters for the sheriff’s office, and on video at the YSU Police Department.

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