A 20-year-old Chicora man withdrew his guilty plea in Common Pleas Court on Tuesday to attempted homicide and other charges alleging he fired multiple gunshots at the former boyfriend of his girlfriend in October 2019 in Cherry Township.

Adam Joseph Rodgers, 20, briefly testified virtually from the county jail that he didn't shoot or intend to shoot at the alleged victim.His attorney, Stanley Booker, told Judge William Shaffer that Rodgers believed the plea he signed in March called for him to serve his prison sentence in the county jail.Assistant District Attorney Terri Schultz opposed the motion to withdraw the plea.Shaffer granted the motion to vacate the guilty plea and substitute it with a not-guilty plea. The judge said he will schedule a status conference in the case.After the brief hearing, Booker said the case is a serious one, and he is negotiating another plea agreement with the county District Attorney's Office. He said Rodgers has no criminal record.State police charged Rodgers with felony counts of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy to engage in aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of tampering with evidence following the alleged shooting on Oct. 17, 2019. Two counts of aggravated assault and conspiracy were filed.At his preliminary hearing in November 2019, one of the conspiracy charges was dismissed, but all other charges were held for court.On March 26, he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault, and prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining charges.Rodgers is in the county jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.A cellphone video recording that prosecutors said was made by Rodgers that allegedly shows him holding and shooting the gun in his right hand and recording the encounter with the phone in his left hand was played at the preliminary hearing.Rodgers' face isn't visible in the video, but the voice on the video, alleged to be Rodgers', is heard cursing at the victim and telling him to “smile at the camera.”Rodgers' alleged target, Hunter Grossman, 19, of Cherry Township, managed to flee and was not injured.Police recovered four .380-caliber bullet casings from the scene.

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