The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Elyria men plead in shooting case
A pair of Elyria men admitted they shot at a woman as she drove down North Abbe Road in December.
Erique McBerry, 21, pleaded guilty Oct. 1, and Ethan Schuster, 20, pleaded guilty Sept. 27, to amended indictments of four counts of felonious assault and single counts each of improper discharge of firearm into a habitation or school safety zone, theft, tampering with evidence, discharge of a firearm
near a prohibited premises, receiving stolen property and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.
Elyria police Capt. Christopher Costantino said officers responded to a report of multiple shots fired at 9:06 p.m. Dec. 4, and met with the victim who said she was driving with two other males in her sedan on the North Abbe Road curb lane when a black vehicle pulled up next to her and two men, later identified as McBerry and Schuster, started firing shots toward her.
The victim continued north while shots were continually being fired at her, Costantino said.
She told police that 12 shots were fired, and police observed that three struck her car; one near the wheel, one by the vehicle’s grill and one hit the driver’s side mirror, he said.
Later, officers were dispatched to Rosewood Drive to meet witnesses who claimed to see two white males, with hoods and something covering their faces, jump into a black vehicle, squeal the tires as they left, and fire four to five shots. Officers also located three pistols, two 9 mm guns and one 45 mm gun, two of which were stolen, he said.
Both men are in the Lorain County Jail on $250,000 bonds. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Raymond J. Ewers will sentence them Oct. 31.