YOUNGSTOWN - The Youngstown man accused of gunning down a teenager at a Southside gas station is expected to enter a guilty plea on Wednesday instead of going on trial.

Twenty-one-year-old Carlos Flores Junior has been in the Mahoning County Jail since July 26, 2021, when he was arrested for the shooting death of 17-year-old Reshaud Biggs Jr.

Biggs was shot outside the Gateway Gas Mart on South Avenue near East Avondale Avenue.

According to police, Biggs was found face down in the parking lot of the gas station with a gunshot wound.

Biggs, who planned to begin his senior year at Ursuline High School that fall, was pronounced dead at the hospital just hours after his 17th birthday.

At the time of the shooting, Flores Junior was free on bond following his arrest three months earlier on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and obstructing official business.

Before the announcement of Wednesday’s plea hearing, Flores was scheduled to go on trial in April on those charges, as well as aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, and one count of discharging a firearm into a prohibited premises.

In December, a judge reversed an earlier finding that Flores was incompetent to stand trial.