(La Porte, IN) - Sentencing is scheduled next week for a man in connection with a shooting last year in La Porte.  Joseph Ukonga pleaded guilty late last month to criminal recklessness and other counts.

According to police, gunshots struck a house in November in the 200 block of I Street.  Several passing vehicles were also hit.  Later, police discovered a 70 year old man was hit in the face by one of the stray rounds.  The victim wound up at a South Bend hospital with injuries described by police as non-life threaening.

Police say it appears the gunfire was linked to a road rage incident at Koomler Park.  Under the plea, the 24 year old Ukonga agreed to a 15 year prison sentence and another five- years in community corrections.

Sentencing is scheduled next Friday before La Porte Circuit Court Judge Tom Alevizos.