UPDATED on April 11, 2024: The charges listed against Alfred Agbim in this article were dismissed and expunged at the Butler County Common Pleas Court on Oct. 18, 2023.

Charges against a Texas man accused of pointing a gun at teenagers while driving in Cranberry Township moved to Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Alfred Agbim, 24, is charged with felony unlicensed carrying of a gun and misdemeanor simple assault and reckless endangerment.

During a preliminary hearing Friday, a 17-year-old juvenile denied that anyone said racial slurs aimed at another car in an incident Jan. 10 on Route 228 in which Agbim allegedly pointed a gun at three juveniles, of which the 17-year-old was one.

Agbim appeared before District Judge Kevin J. Flaherty.

Officer Robin Winters of the Cranberry Township Police Department said Agbim, who is Black, said he believed the juveniles yelled racial slurs at him, including “I hate (racial slur).”

The juvenile testified that he saw a gun pointed at him and two other people in the car with him while stopped at a red light on Route 228.

The juvenile said he and two other juveniles in the car were listening to a J. Cole rap song, loudly, at a red light with the windows down, when a car pulled up next to them on their left.

“I saw a black handgun pointed towards us,” he said. “It was pressed up against the passenger side front window and it was pointed towards our car.”

The juvenile said that the windows of the other car, a sedan, were closed and heavily tinted, and that he could only see the circle of the barrel of the gun pressed against the window.

He said he told the driver of the car he was in about the gun. The driver turned on to Dutilh Road, and the other car followed them down the road and into a vacant lot, which they drove out of and back onto Route 228. The driver did not follow them when they turned right again toward Wal-Mart, he said.

Nicole Nino, lawyer for the defense, asked whether any of the juveniles said “I hate (racial slur)” or “We could (expletive) kill you (racial slur),” which the juvenile denied. The juvenile also denied that he or the other juveniles pointed and laughed at the other car.

The juvenile said that the song he and the other juveniles were listening to may have included the N-word, but that he didn’t know which song it was or all of the lyrics.

Officer Robin Winters, also of the Cranberry police, said the department tracked down Agbim’s vehicle using license plate readers along Route 228 and went to where he was staying somewhere between half an hour and an hour after they were dispatched.

Winters said Agbim was cooperative and admitted to “raising” his gun at the juveniles, and to following them, saying he wanted to teach them a lesson that “their actions were dangerous and that you need to be careful or you might cross the wrong individual.”

Winters said Agbim said he was not aware he needed a concealed firearm permit for a gun inside a vehicle.

When officers retrieved the gun from the vehicle at Agbim’s home, there was a 10-bullet magazine in the gun, but no round chambered. There was no evidence available as to whether the gun was loaded at the time of the incident with the three juveniles.

A formal arraignment was scheduled May 24.