Man gets five years for killing
YOUNGSTOWN — A Hudson Avenue man’s cooperation with authorities contributed to his sentence of five years in prison for killing one man and injuring another. Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Wade Shaw, 32, on Monday.
Shaw pleaded guilty and was convicted earlier this month to involuntary manslaughter in the December 2002 beating death of Archie Stanford, 44, of Parkwood Avenue.
Mill Creek Park Police on routine patrol found Stanford’s body in the park’s lower Bears Den parking lot. Shaw also pleaded guilty and was convicted to felonious assault with a firearm specification in the October 2003 shooting of Rasheid Brown which occurred on Glenwood Avenue. Brown survived.
Prior to the plea agreement, Shaw had been charged with aggravated murder in Stanford’s death and with attempted murder in the Brown shooting. The judge sentenced Shaw to two years on the felonious assault charge with an additional three years for the gun specification. She sentenced him to two years on the involuntary manslaughter conviction to be served concurrently with the other charges.