BOARDMAN — A man has been charged for shooting his girlfriend’s prowling ex-boyfriend while the ex-boyfriend took a plea deal last week for damaging property at the home before being shot.

Nathan Fair, 41, of Austintown, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted criminal damaging, a third-degree misdemeanor, which was reduced from criminal damaging or endangering. A charge of menacing by stalking was dropped in exchange for the plea. Fair was given a 12-month suspended sentence and ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, whose home he vandalized on Oct. 11 before being shot by her new boyfriend, Edwin Garcia.

Garcia, 26, of Youngstown, is charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for shooting Fair. He was arrested Oct. 22 and made an initial appearance in Mahoning County Boardman Court, where Judge Joseph Houser imposed a $10,000 cash or surety bond and ordered him to have no contact with Fair. He is due in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 19.

The police report states officers found Fair lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the back of his leg at about 2:15 a.m. Oct. 11. Fair and his ex-girlfriend gave police different accounts of what happened.

The woman told police she and her boyfriend noticed someone in the driveway near the boyfriend’s car. When he went out to check on his car, Fair jumped out from behind it and yelled at him, and that was when the boyfriend shot him and left.

The report states police found a screwdriver, wire cutters, motor oil and a funnel under another vehicle in the driveway. The woman told police that Fair has been stalking her, has slashed her tires on three occasions and that she filed a protection order against him. The report states that the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office never served Fair with the protection order.

The report states Fair told police the shooting happened after he went to the house and had an argument with the woman about their breakup. He said he was leaving after the argument when the boyfriend shot him.

The report states he told police he drove part-way to her house, but then parked at an apartment complex and walked 15 to 20 minutes the rest of the way.

The woman told police she had a security camera covering the driveway, but when police tried to view the surveillance video, they found there was none and that the wires to the camera had been cut.

According to the report, when they asked Fair about it, he denied damaging any vehicles but admitted that he had cut the wires to the camera.

During questioning, Fair told police he went to the woman’s house “to do some stupid (stuff).”