Man pleads in shooting case off YSU campus

Staff report

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One of two Pittsburgh men arrested in a shooting just off the campus of Youngstown State University in February pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of obstruction of justice.

Rashaud Lewis, 20, of Pittsburgh, will be sentenced by Judge John Durkin in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Prosecutors are recommending a term of probation, and they said Lewis made a statement to police about what happened during the Feb. 17 incident.

Police said Sylean Wilson, 19, was standing on Pennsylvania Avenue and he fired into a car with several women inside. One of the women was wounded in the torso and was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Reports said Wilson ran into a nearby building when police arrived. Lewis would not let them in the building at first and then slammed the door on them.

Neither man was a student at YSU. Police said they were in town for a friend’s birthday party.

Wilson faces several charges of felonious assault. His case is set for a trial Jan. 6.