A Brooklyn, N.Y., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to shooting a man in the abdomen in a Groton City parking lot on March 11, 2018, as his case headed to trial in New London Superior Court.

Nathan J. Ramos, 26, also known as "NeNe," will be sentenced March 11 to six years in prison, followed by 10 years of special parole, for first-degree assault and carrying a pistol without a permit.

Three jurors had been selected for his trial, which was scheduled to begin Dec. 17 before Judge Arthur C. Hadden, when Ramos accepted a plea offer involving the six-year prison sentence. He previously had turned down an offer involving eight years in prison.

According to court documents, a female picked up Ramos and his cousin Anthony Rodriguez from the train station in New Haven and drove them to the Branford Manor apartment complex so that Rodriquez could fight his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. During a 12:30 a.m. altercation in the parking lot involving several people, Ramos retrieved a gun and fired several shots, striking the victim. The woman drove Ramos and Rodriguez back to the train station, and Ramos was arrested two weeks later in New York City.

The victim, driven to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital by his brother, sustained a "through and through" bullet wound on the right side of the stomach, meaning the bullet entered and exited his body without hitting any organs, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. He was treated and released from L+M.

At the time of his arrest, Ramos was on parole for a grand theft auto case in New York and could not legally own a gun.

The case was prosecuted by Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney Paul J. Narducci. Attorney Bruce McIntyre represented Ramos, who is incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

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