City man gets five years in prison on manslaughter charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A city man will spend the next five years in prison for a shooting death committed earlier this year on the city’s North Side.

Sheridan L. Tubbs, 21, of Silliman Street, appeared for sentencing today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. A co-defendant in the case, Jerrell R. Womack, 20, of Oak Street, will be sentenced at a later date.

Tubbs and Womack were charged in the death of Dene R. Montgomery, 30, of Wesley Avenue, who was shot in the back of the head in the living room of a Lora Avenue home Jan. 2.

Tubbs, represented by Atty. Ross Smith, had been charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in a plea agreement with prosecutors. Prosecutors, under that agreement, recommended a three-year prison sentence.

Judge Krichbaum, however, rejected that recommendation and imposed a sentence of five years in prison. He also ordered Tubbs to serve a mandatory five years on parole after his release.

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