MAHONING COUNTY Akron man gets prison for Campbell shooting

By BOB JACKSON
VINDICATOR COURTHOUSE REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- An Akron man will spend nearly 20 years in prison for a July 23 shooting spree in Campbell that left one man dead and another man wounded.
Chawn Cloyd, 23, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Robert Lisotto of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to 10 years for involuntary manslaughter, five years for felonious assault and three years for using a gun. Cloyd, who is also known as Travalas T. Hammonds, pleaded guilty to the charges in November.
"Nobody knows how bad this hurts," said Ellen Bellamy of Youngstown, whose son, Glenn Land II, was killed. "It really hurts."
Bellamy was angered that what should have amounted to a fistfight resulted in gunfire and led to her son's death.
"If you're gonna fight somebody, you fight hand-to-hand," she said to Cloyd. "You don't use a gun."
Bellamy sobbed throughout her remarks to the judge and continued crying loudly from the back of the courtroom afterward. She eventually had to leave. Before she left, Cloyd apologized to her and to Jermaine Stroughter, who was also shot during the altercation. "I know there ain't nothing I can say that will make this right," Cloyd said. "Now I'm ready to do my time for what I did."
Police say he pulled out a gun during an argument outside a house on Monroe Street in Campbell and shot 19-year-old Land in the chest, killing him.
Stroughter, 23, of Pasadena Avenue, was grazed in the back by a bullet. Stroughter was in the courtroom for sentencing but did not address the judge.
Assistant prosecutor Robert Andrews has said the argument was apparently sparked by comments Cloyd had made to a woman.
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