7 years in drive-by shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — A man charged in a June 20, 2004, drive-by shooting is going to prison for seven years.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence Wednesday on Francisco Bermudez, 32, of Grover Street, Masury.

Bermudez, who apologized in court to the victim and his family, pleaded guilty in March to felonious assault with a firearm specification in the wounding of Aaron J. Gump, 26, of Belden Avenue, who was shot as he sat in his driveway.

The non-appealable sentence, agreed to by the prosecution and defense, consists of six years for the felonious assault and one year for the gun specification and will be followed by three years of parole.