Man Pleads Guilty In Toms River Shooting

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Toms River man has pleaded guilty in a June shooting that injured another man in Toms River, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.

Anthony A. Brown, 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose before Judge David M. Fritch, Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 21, with a recommendation from prosecutors for four years in prison on the aggravated assault charge and five years on the weapons charge, with 3-1/2 years of parole ineligibility on the weapons charge with the sentences running concurrently, the prosecutor's office said.

Toms River police were called to a home on Adams Avenue about 11:30 p.m. on June 12, 2024, for a report of someone injured by a gunshot and found a 24-year-old man with a wound to his leg, the prosecutor's office said.

The man was treated and released from Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, authorities said.

Investigators learned Brown had gotten a handgun from the house and fired two shots at the victim's vehicle, hitting the victim. Brown took off and was arrested a short time later at his home, not far from where the shooting happened, authorities said.

He has been held in the Ocean County Jail since he was arrested, the prosecutor's office said.