WYOMING, Mich. — A man who pleaded no contest in a 2024 shooting that critically injured a Wyoming gas station employee will learn his sentence Wednesday.

Niko Rey Mena pleaded to charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, carrying a concealed weapon and weapons felony firearm in July.

According to police, the shooting happened around 5:40 p.m. on March 6, 2024 at the Admiral gas station on 32nd Street SW and Division Avenue S.

Responding officers found 36-year-old Willis Booker of Grand Rapids suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Police said Booker worked at the gas station.

Probable cause documents state Mena went inside the gas station with his gun, talked to Booker and then followed him out of the store and shot at him.

Booker was taken to a near

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