‘Happy Days’ Actress Pleads Not Guilty in Shooting

At a hearing where she seemed to want to talk about everything but the issue at hand, former “Happy Days” sitcom actress Roz Kelly pleaded not guilty Monday to shooting at two cars and into a neighbor’s home.

Kelly, best-known for her role as Fonzie’s sexy biker girlfriend Pinky Tuscadero in the 1973-84 television show, reportedly has said she used the 12-gauge shotgun to silence a car alarm that was keeping her awake.

At Monday morning’s hearing, Kelly chattered to Superior Court Commissioner Michael Duffey and Deputy Dist. Atty. Karen Rizzo about her medical problems, her ethnic background, how she acquired her stage name and how she thought her neighbors’ testimony at a previous hearing was ridiculous.

She began the hearing Monday by telling Duffey that she wanted to fire her lawyer, whom she hired last month to replace a public defender. “No one can defend me better than me,” she said.

Kelly, 56, was arrested Nov. 29 after she allegedly armed herself with a Winchester shotgun and a handgun and shot up two neighbors’ cars, then walked up to a neighbor’s apartment, smashed a window and fired into the living room.

The neighbor was not home and no one was hurt.

The alleged rampage occurred shortly after noon, after Kelly reportedly said she was awakened by the siren of a car alarm that had repeatedly sounded in the night.

She said it was particularly bothersome because she suffers from chronic knee pain, which a series of surgeries has failed to eliminate.

That pain is in part responsible for making her “not the most mentally stable person” her lawyer, Andrew Levy said.

The charges against her--shooting at an unoccupied vehicle and shooting at an inhabited dwelling--carry a maximum of eight years, four months in prison.

Prosecutors offered her a five-year sentence in a plea bargain last month, but she turned it down.