BOARDMAN — Charges have been dropped against a man involved in one shooting even as police investigate a new incident.

Boardman Police Chief Todd Werth said a man wounded by gunfire Sunday has been released from the hospital. On Tuesday, prosecutors dropped charges against Edwin Garcia for an October shooting on Oakridge Drive, saying he fired his weapon in self-defense.

Werth said this week’s shooting happened at Southern Boulevard and Maple Avenue about 12:15 p.m. The victim, a man in his 20s, was hit twice and his vehicle was struck by four bullets. Werth said the investigation is ongoing.

Garcia was charged on Oct. 17 with felonious assault, after he shot his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend in the early morning hours of Oct. 11, after they caught the man prowling around the cars in the woman’s driveway.

On Tuesday, Judge Joseph Houser of Mahoning County Boardman Court dismissed the charges with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled later.

The ex-boyfriend, Nathan Fair, 41, of Austintown, pleaded guilty last week 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 former girlfriend.

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 had been stalking her and had slashed her tires on three occasions and that she filed a protection order against him.

The report states that Fair 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.

Fair denied damaging any vehicles but admitted that he had cut the wires to the camera. The report states he told police during the interview that he had gone to the woman’s house “to do some stupid [stuff].”