Saturday, November 18, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN -- An 18-year-old man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to felonious assault with a firearm specification and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle July 16 and carrying a concealed weapon June 10.
Conovis Crawford, of Stewart Avenue, drew the sentence late this week from Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Crawford was charged with shooting a 51-year-old man in the left hip and buttocks July 16 outside the man's residence in the 1600 block of Wick Avenue on the North Side, and possessing a loaded, sawed-off .22-caliber rifle in a vehicle that day. Court papers did not indicate the motive for the shooting.
City police arrested Crawford for carrying a concealed, loaded .22-caliber revolver June 10 at Stewart and Katherine avenues on the city's East Side.
The county prosecutor's office recommended an eight-year total sentence, and the maximum sentence would have been 14 years.