A man who used a phony Facebook page to lure his ex-girlfriend to a Lincoln apartment pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges stemming from an attempted murder.

Roy L. Williams, 46, is set for sentencing Oct. 6 for trying to kill a Stromsburg woman -- and for using a firearm to do it.

Just before 9:30 p.m. on March 24, the woman began climbing the stairs at 1441 G St. -- where she planned to meet a man she had met on Facebook -- when she was shot three times in her left and right thigh. One of the shots punctured her bladder, said Chief Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly. A fourth bullet lodged into the stairs.

The woman used her cell phone to call 911, and emergency workers took her to a Lincoln hospital.

She later told police she had gone there to meet John Smith, a man who approached her out of the blue on Facebook three days earlier, Kelly said.

Officers quickly came to suspect Williams, whom she had stopped dating a month and a half earlier. When they broke up, she said, he told her he would hunt her down and shoot her.

A month later, her car was stolen.

The evidence started to stack up against Williams, who at one time lived in York.