Tuesday, November 25, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN — A city man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for seriously wounding his brother by shooting him at their family’s home on Truesdale Avenue after a family argument in August 2007.
Robert E. Bush Jr., chief of the criminal division in the county prosecutor’s office, said charges against Anthony Peeples, 41, of Atkinson Avenue, were reduced from attempted murder and aggravated burglary because the victim of the shooting, Robert “Poke” Peeples, 45, “flat out refused” to testify, Bush said.
Likewise, other family members and other witnesses refused to cooperate with the investigation, Bush said.
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