Youngstown man gets prison sentence for 2010 shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — A man convicted of a homicide a decade ago was sentenced to nine years in prison this morning for trying to kill somebody else last year.

Casimiro Ellis, 29, of East Avondale Avenue, drew the nine year prison term from Judge Lou A. D’Apolito, of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Ellis drew the sentence today after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder with a firearm specification and to being a felon with a gun in the shooting of Alynn S. Grant, 32, of Liberty Road.

Grant told police he pulled into a driveway in the 6500 block of Mill Creek Boulevard in Boardman and saw Ellis walking toward him with a gun. Ellis then shot him once in the leg and four times in the back.

Ellis was released from prison in 2009 after having been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2000 shooting death of Karl Green.

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