A second teenager has admitted his role in a central Christchurch shooting that has been likened to gangland Chicago.
Casey Aaron Mike Gathergood was aged 17 the night he drove a car and positioned it so that his friend Jacob Oscar Murray could fire a shotgun blast into a car that was following them, Christchurch Court News reported.
Murray has begun a three year, four month jail term imposed in the Christchurch District Court early in April.
Gathergood, who lived at Rolleston at the time, was meant to begin a two-day jury trial next week but that has been forestalled by his guilty pleas to three charges at a pre-trial conference.
He admitted burgling a shipping container at Dunsandel from which firearms were taken on July 15 and unlawfully possessing several of the firearms for the next five days.
He was also charged with discharging a shotgun in central Christchurch on July 20 with reckless disregard for the safety of two women who were in the following car, because of the part he played in the incident.
When Murray was sentenced, Judge Brian Callaghan likened his actions to "the gangs that paraded through the streets of Chicago in the 1930s".
It was the same judge who took Gathergood's three guilty pleas today and remanded him on bail for sentence on June 5.
At the request of defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger, he asked for the report on Gathergood's suitability for home detention, as well as a probation report.
Miss Bulger said Gathergood had only two relatively minor previous convictions.
He had been released on bail during his remand and had gone to live with his grandparents in Taupo. His grandmother reported that he had been hard working and had complied with house rules during the remand.
He had worked in the Taupo area and had returned to Christchurch at Easter to take up a further job offer.
The courts were earlier told the pair were driving in the city on the night of July 19-20 when there was an incident with another car the occupants of which threw bottles and smashed a window on Murray's vehicle.
The pair drove to Rolleston where the firearms from the burglary had been hidden and returned to the city armed.
The car was then involved in an altercation with a different car. Murray pointed the shotgun out the window and the other car backed off, but the occupants called the police and followed at a distance.
In Salisbury Street, Gathergood braked their car to a halt at an angle so that Murray could fire the shotgun into the front of the following vehicle.
The blast caused no physical injuries to the occupants but there was $2462 damage done to the windscreen bonnet and radiator.
The court has been told the occupants have suffered financially and emotionally, including suffering from nightmares and anxiety.
