The trial of a Gering man accused in connection to the shooting death of a 22-year-old Scottsbluff man will no longer occur this week as prosecutors dismissed charges.
According to Scotts Bluff County District Court records, charges against Anibal Domingo Jr., 19, were dismissed Friday, April 5. Domingo had been scheduled to be tried Thursday on two counts of being an accessory to a felony, a Class IIA felony, in connection to the Nov. 18, 2023, shooting death of Wilson George Coleman III.
Domingo had been the only person charged in connection with the shooting. He had initially been charged with murder in the second-degree, a Class IB felony, and use of a firearm to commit a felony, but later those charges were dismissed without prejudice and Domingo only faced trial on the accessory charges. The accessory charges alleged that Domingo had provided false information to officers investigating the shooting.
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In arrest affidavits filed as part of the case, police had alleged that Domingo had fired a weapon during an altercation with Coleman in the 1000 block of 15th Avenue. Coleman died at Regional West Medical Center after being dropped off by three men. He had been shot in the chest.
Police interviewed two of the men, one of whom had been involved in a confrontation with Domingo at the Cigarette Chain in Scottsbluff. The men told Coleman about the confrontation and Coleman allegedly retrieved a 9mm handgun and the men drove around until they found Domingo in the parking lot of a Scottsbluff apartment building.
According to the affidavit, Coleman confronted Domingo, pointing a handgun at him and shooting in the air. Domingo allegedly made a statement that he had a gun, reached down to the floorboard of a vehicle and allegedly shot at Coleman. As Coleman ran back to the vehicle he was traveling in, he told his friends he had been hit.
Police didn’t recover Coleman’s gun, which one of the men had allegedly admitted to disposing, as part of its investigation. Domingo denied possessing a gun or shooting anyone when questioned by police.
Domingo remains jailed at the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center as he also faces charges in three separate cases that remain pending in Scotts Bluff County, two involving assaults and confrontations with other persons and one case involving drug charges stemming from October 2021.