WARREN Role in attack nets 6 years

The defendant apologized to the victim's family before sentencing.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- An Austintown man will spend the next six years in prison for his role in a shooting that injured a baby boy.
Judge W. Wyatt McKay sentenced Odomie Wellington, 21, of Vollmer Drive, during a brief hearing Friday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Wellington had pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and felonious assault charges
Prosecutors said Wellington and Brandon Little went into a Parkman Road S.W. home Sept. 2, 2000, and began shooting.
The 13-month-old boy was shot and seriously injured.
Before sentencing, Wellington turned to relatives of the infant and apologized.
Sentenced Thursday
Little was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty in April to charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and felonious assault.
Wellington's brother, Delainey, of Youngstown, also pleaded guilty in November 2000 to a felony charge of obstruction of justice for lying when he was questioned about the shooting. He was sentenced to five years' probation.
The baby, Kyreese Haymon, was shot during what police said was a robbery at his father's Parkman Road home.
Police were told that the child's 16-year-old baby sitter had brought the baby, Odomie Wellington and Little to the home around 8 p.m.
The baby sitter went into the house with the child, and the two men waited outside, police said.
Entered home
The two men entered the home and attempted to rob Kyren Haymon, the child's father, police said. Once the two were inside the home, the shooting began.
Kyreese and Kyren Haymon were both wounded.
The boy spent several weeks in a Pittsburgh hospital with head and chest wounds.
The baby sitter pleaded guilty in November 2000 to a charge of delinquency by way of obstruction of justice. She was given six months of house arrest and a six-month suspended jail sentence.