Charity headed to prison for 2010 East Side drive-by shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who pleaded guilty to firing from a motor vehicle into an occupied East Side residence has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence Monday on Earl Charity III, 26, of Delaware Avenue.

Charity pleaded guilty as charged to firing into a habitation, being a felon with a gun, and two counts of felonious assault in a March 22, 2010, drive-by shooting in the 1100 block of Springdale Avenue.

A trial of this matter ended in a hung jury last March, and Charity pleaded guilty as he was awaiting his re-trial.

Judge Evans sentenced Charity to five years in prison on a motor-vehicle gun specification, consecutive to a two-year prison term on all the other charges combined.

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