A 25-year-old Butler man is facing a 48- to 60-month prison sentence after pleading no contest Tuesday to one of several felony charges Butler Township police filed alleging he fired multiple gunshots through a door and struck his girlfriend with one shot in 2018.

Gage Frederick Carrozzi pleaded no contest in Common Pleas Court to aggravated assault in a plea agreement in which 12 other charges, including attempted homicide, were dismissed.

On Dec. 17, Carrozzi allegedly fired seven shots from a .40-caliber handgun into a door that his girlfriend, Jessica McFarland, was holding shut to prevent him from forcing his way into. One bullet grazed her torso. She was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital.

Judge William R. Shaffer accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for Nov. 23.

The plea agreement was announced as a jury, selected Thursday, was waiting in the assembly room to hear the case.

Assistant District Attorney Robert Zanella Jr. said Carrozzi agreed to plead no contest to aggravated assault with a sentence of 48 to 60 months in jail.

Carrozzi entered the plea after public defender Charles Nedz read details of the agreement.

Nedz said the felony aggravated assault charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $25,000. The remaining charges — attempted homicide, seven counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of children and two misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person — will be dismissed, he said.

Pleading no contest is not an admission of guilt, but acknowledges that a jury would likely find Carrozzi guilty and has the same impact as pleading guilty, Nedz said.

Shaffer said the 48- to 60-month sentence falls within the standard range of sentencing guidelines. He ordered that a presentence investigation be conducted and said he would review it before issuing the sentence.

At Carrozzi's preliminary hearing, McFarland testified that she spent the night at a friend's apartment, and that Carrozzi showed up at 8 a.m., kicking the door and demanding to be let in.

She said she was on the phone with 911 when she heard gunshots, saw holes in the door and felt stinging on the side of her stomach. Her friend jumped out of the apartment window when the shots were fired.

The two had been a couple for seven years and had a child they both cared for along with another child she had in their home, she said.