BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont man received six years of probation Monday after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting at his neighbor and yelling racial slurs during a July fireworks dispute.

James Boswell, 46, was sentenced in Jefferson County's 252nd District Court in connection with a July 5 incident on Ridgewood Ave in which he fired multiple shots at his neighbor and the neighbor's brother after shouting racial slurs at them.

Judge Raquel West expressed reluctance about the plea agreement.

"You're lucky that I'm going along with this agreement because I don't really like it," Judge West said. "I don't like what you did. I don't like how you treated those people and I don't like what you did to those children."

As part of his probation, Boswell is

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