Man pleads guilty to shooting woman in parking lot

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Oct 15, 2008 at 5:05 AM MST

Story Updated: Oct 15, 2008 at 5:05 AM MST

MISSOULA - A Missoula man accused in a 2007 shooting that left his ex-girlfriend hospitalized has pleaded guilty.

Twenty-one-year-old Dustin Dankers was charged with attempted mitigated deliberate homicide and assault with a weapon. That's for the May 4, 2007, shooting that severely wounded 21-year-old Amye Swartz. His sentencing is scheduled for December 4th.

Dankers told police he drove to a downtown Missoula parking lot in search of Swartz and the two began to argue. Court documents state that Dankers shot Swartz, puncturing her lung, before putting the gun to his own head. Bystanders persuaded him to drop the weapon and assist the woman.

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