After spending his 21st birthday behind bars, an Allegheny County man was sentenced to jail for firing a gun last year during an argument with people over a parking spot and then driving away high on marijuana.

Jermaine L. Jett, 21, of Natrona Heights was arrested Aug. 25, 2019, after he fired a handgun past the heads of two others at an apartment complex in Slippery Rock Township. Since then, he has been held in the Butler County Prison. Jett pleaded guilty June 18 to receiving stolen property, carrying a firearm without a license, two counts of reckless endangerment and driving under the influence. And on Thursday, Judge William Shaffer sentenced Jett to one to two years in jail for the gun charge, and nine to 18 months in jail for the stolen property. He was given 355 days of credit for time already served and the two jail sentences are running simultaneously.

For the DUI, Jett must pay a $500 fine and serve six months of probation, and for the two reckless endangerment charges he will be on probation for a total of two years.

According to police, a call for a shooting around 2:18 a.m. Aug. 25 sent police to the apartment complex on Harmony Road in Slippery Rock Township. While responding, a trooper spotted a car travel briefly in his lane on Branchton Road.

The car, police said, matched the description of the shooter's getaway vehicle. The trooper stopped it.

The driver, who was identified as Jett, appeared impaired and the car reportedly smelled of marijuana.

A search of the vehicle, police said, turned up a 9 mm pistol that had one fired shell casing jammed in the slide. The gun was loaded with a 30-round magazine that had 16 live rounds.

A check of the National Crime Information Center, documents said, showed the gun was previously reported stolen from Harrison Township, Allegheny County. In the car, police also allegedly found 12 individually packaged THC cartridges.

Additionally, police said they found Jett with $1,540 and a fake West Virginia identification card.

The investigation subsequently determined that the incident began over parking, police said. Jett got out of his car and confronted two men at the apartment complex.

“Jett pointed a black handgun at both (victims') heads, then pulled away,” documents said, “and fired one round directly past them, then fled the scene.”