An Erie man has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and reckless endangerment charges on the eve of his jury trial.

Vincent M. Winicki, 30, entered the plea on Wednesday. A trial had been scheduled for Thursday.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, shortly after midnight on Aug. 1, 2021, Pennsylvania State Police responded to Corry Memorial Hospital to speak with an alleged victim in the emergency room. The woman told police she had put her child in her car when she saw headlights coming “right at me.”

The other vehicle “almost struck my car, and then hit me,” she told police. “The front and passenger side of the car hit my leg and my face bashed off the car. I then hit the ground with my left side.”

“Vincent parked the car at the end of the driveway and came to the window where I was sitting and was screaming at me, asking if I was OK,” she told police. “I called police and he left. I had blood on my face and my teeth severely hurt, so I drove myself to the hospital.”

He also contacted the victim and “threatened multiple time to kill her and her (child) and burn her house down,” police said.

In exchange for the plea, charges of terroristic threats, simple assault, harassment, recklessly endangering another person and criminal mischief – damage property were not prosecuted.

Winicki remains behind bars in the county jail pending sentencing.