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24 year-old Marcus Garcia, a prisoner who is currently serving out a prison sentence for ammunition conviction, has been sentenced to spend 10 months for shooting a man.

In July of 2017 he allegedly shot 31 year cab driver Emmeth Baptist.  

Baptist told police that he dropped off Garcia and a female, and when he looked up, he was staring into the barrel of a .38 revolver.  Baptist said he took $35 out of his pocket, handed it to Garcia, and then, reversed out at high speed. Garcia fired 4 shots at him while he was reversing, and he was shot in his back and on his left index finger. He continued to reverse, then he turned into Tibruce Street and on to Mahogany Street where he was a police mobile intercepted him and learned what had happened. 

Garcia was later arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery, wounding and use of deadly means of harm. But he was only indicted for use of deadly means of harm with intent to cause grievous harm. He pleaded guilty to use of deadly means of harm on January 31st, and today, Justice Colin Williams sentenced him to 10 months after making adjustments for time served. 

Crown Counsel Portia Ferguson, who represented the Crown, had asked that the sentence run consecutive to a sentence of 2 years that Garcia is serving for an ammunition conviction. But Justice Williams stipulated that it should run concurrently to the time he is serving, which mean that Garcia will serve no more than 10 months.