Man charged in shooting given four years in jail

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A Jessup man charged in the shooting last year of a Columbia man?s home was sentenced to four years in jail Tuesday, after entering into a plea agreement.

Maurice Dorrell Fowler, 22, was initially charged with attempted murder for his part in the Aug. 22 shooting, during which a gunman unloaded six 9mm bullets into the bedroom window of Michael Alan Spitler?s house on the 5010 block of Durham Road East. Tuesday, Fowler pleaded guilty to first-degree assault.

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