Woods pleads guilty in 2023 shooting

A Kempner-area man pleaded guilty Friday in the shooting of his friend in May 2023.

Michael Oran Woods, 43, was scheduled for jury trial on Sept. 23 on a murder charge, but instead he reached a plea agreement in the 27th District Court of Lampasas County on Friday.

Woods pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony…