A 21-year-old Waterbury woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to three counts of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in connection with an Aug. 22 gunfire incident near Perkins Pier in Burlington.
Teia Mobbs was ordered to be held without bail, pending further legal proceedings, according to court documents. She was arraigned in Chittenden Superior criminal court.
The incident, which had no reported injuries, occurred at roughly 10 p.m. when Burlington dispatchers received several calls about gunfire in the Perkins Pier parking lot, according to police.
Witnesses told police that multiple shots were fired from a white sedan at a darker colored sedan with tinted windows.
Mobbs was inside her vehicle with a friend when a woman with whom she had an ongoing dispute entered the lot, according to the affidavit. Mobbs told police that a passenger in the other vehicle pointed a rifle at her, prompting her to retrieve her firearm and fire it four times toward the other vehicle.
The driver and the two passengers in the other vehicle, one of whom was a juvenile, dispute Mobbs’ claims that a firearm was pointed at her or that they threatened her, according to the affidavit. The passenger in Mobbs’ car also told police she didn’t see a firearm pointed at them, the affidavit stated.
Both vehicles fled the scene before police arrived, according to the affidavit.
Burlington police announced Mobbs’ arrest Tuesday.
Detective Thomas Chenette said in an affidavit that police recovered the firearm believed to have been used in the incident from Mobbs’ vehicle on Tuesday.
— Juliet Schulman-Hall
