New York ? A man who had been acquitted of charges he groped a woman fired a sawed-off rifle at her during a court hearing over attorney’s fees, authorities said. No one was injured but the shot narrowly missed the judge’s head.

“I should have shot that b—- two years ago,” Leo Lewis Jr. said as he stood up and pulled the trigger on Monday night, according to a felony complaint issued Tuesday. The complaint also said Lewis confessed he had previously thought about killing the woman.

Lewis had been acquitted of charges of forcibly touching the 21-year-old woman, and on Monday he was seeking attorney’s fees from her in small claims court, according to Louis Valvo, chief assistant district attorney for Rockland County.

The hearing was being held in the small town of Sloatsburg, and the courtroom on the second floor of Village Hall has no metal detectors.

The shot missed the woman and struck a window several feet above a judge’s head, police said. An officer who was in the courtroom for traffic court fired off a shot, then chased Lewis down and, with the help of a bystander and a village court officer, tackled him in a parking lot as he fled, authorities said.