A Minneapolis man decided to not risk a jury trial and has admitted that he was one of three men who sprayed downtown Minneapolis with gunfire after bar closing time last year that left six people wounded and nearly struck the many police officers in the area.

Detroit Davis-Riley, 26, walked into a Hennepin County courtroom after business hours Friday evening and pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree assault in the shootout on Sept. 12.

Davis-Riley agreed to have sentencing for each count run consecutively, meaning a nine-year term when he is sentenced Friday, with at least six of those years served in prison and the rest on supervised release. His trial was scheduled to start Monday.

According to the criminal complaints:

Davis-Riley and accomplice Maurice Carter, 26, of Minneapolis, were near 5th Street and Hennepin Avenue about 2:30 a.m., as were many police officers and roughly 50 people leaving the nightspots. The officers saw Carter fire several shots toward the intersection with a semiautomatic handgun and then walk away. Officers apprehended Carter and recovered a loaded gun in his waistband.

Other officers saw Davis-Riley with a handgun, and they chased him into an alley and arrested him. Surveillance video showed both Carter and Davis-Riley firing their weapons.

During his plea Friday, Davis-Riley admitted that of the six people who were shot that night, two were wounded by him. In addition, Davis-Riley acknowledged that his gunfire left a pedicab driver in fear for his safety. Davis-Riley admitted he fired 17 rounds.

Carter's trial is scheduled for June 13. A third man, DeMarco Gunn, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault last month. Gunn was among those wounded.

The complaints against all three offered little about the motive for the gunfire, other than "a verbal altercation" among rivals.

Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482