Valon Shoshi Indicted

A grand jury has indicted Valon Shoshi of East Hampton on a felony charge of reckless endangerment, as well as one count of illegally discharging a firearm and two misdemeanor counts of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle. The indictment was unsealed on May 14 during Mr. Shoshi’s arraignment in the Riverside courtroom of State Supreme Court Justice Martin I. Efman.

Last October, Mr. Shoshi, 29, distraught over his troubled marriage to a woman in his native Kosovo, had led East Hampton Town and Village police on a manhunt after firing three rounds from a shotgun inside the Springs house he shared with his parents.

His lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., expressed hope last Thursday that his client, who has been undergoing psychiatric treatment since being released on $25,000 bail, would be able to avoid prison time. Mr. Burke cited Mr. Shoshi’s work in the community over the course of the years he has lived here, noting that he has been an aide at the John M. Marshall Elementary School and a volunteer with both the Springs Fire Department and the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, where he was an assistant chief.