An Erie man accused of pistol-whipping another person and firing a gunshot during an April 2023 altercation at the former Super Chicken in the city’s downtown pleaded guilty to two criminal charges related to the incident weeks before his cases were scheduled for trial.
Yaphet M. Ettison, 52, entered guilty pleas before Erie County Judge John J. Mead Dec. 16 to a second-degree misdemeanor count of recklessly endangering another person in one of the cases Erie police filed against him in the incident; and to a first-degree felony count of person not to possess a firearm, the sole charge in the second case police filed in connection with the incident.
In exchange for Ettison’s guilty plea to the misdemeanor endangering charge in the first case, prosecutors dropped 18 other charges he faced, including attempted homicide and multiple felony counts of aggravated assault…