A27-year-old Billings man admitted on Friday to shooting another man in 2019. The man survived.
Lyndon Thomas Laforge pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon in Yellowstone County District Court.
Under a plea deal, prosecutors reduced the case to an assault charge after originally charging Laforge with attempted deliberate homicide.
Laforge shot a 41-year-old man on July 7, 2019, outside a home near Monroe Street and Orrel Drive, which borders the campus of Riverside Middle School.
The victim called Laforge to confront him, and Laforge said he’d return the stolen money but also threatened to beat up the victim, prosecutors said.
Laforge also admitted punching a dating partner roughly two months later, resisting arrest and violating a no contact order afterward in attempting to call the woman.
