Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - One of the people charged in connection with a drive-by shooting in Rochester last year has entered into a plea agreement.

Court records say 26-year-old Joseph Wesley Simmons Junior and 27-year-old Torria Dilanna Sims were arrested last March after Rochester police responded to multiple reports of a shooting in the vicinity of 41st Street and East Frontage Road Northwest. The criminal complaints filed in the case indicate the responding officers found spent shell casings at the scene.

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The court document says the officers also located a victim, who reported that she was in a vehicle that was stopped behind a second vehicle on East Frontage Road when the other vehicle made a U-turn and an occupant of the vehicle fired multiple gunshots in her direction. No injuries were reported.

The victim identified the occupants of the suspect vehicle as Sims and Simmons. She explained that she had a child with Simmons, who was now dating Sims, who was identified as the alleged shooter in the criminal complaint.

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Simmons was charged with aiding an offender-accomplice after the fact, aiding and abetting second-degree assault, and a felony terroristic threats charge. Under his plea deal, he entered a Norgaard plea today to the second-degree assault charge. The plea means he admits guilt but does not remember his actions due to intoxication.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in March.

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Sims faces charges of aiding and abetting drive-by shooting, aiding and abetting second-degree assault, and a terroristic threats charge. She is currently scheduled to appear in Olmsted County Court for a plea hearing on Friday.

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