Pittsburgh man pleads guilty to shooting YSU student in 2013

YOUNGSTOWN — Prosecutors are recommending a six-year prison for a Pittsburgh man who pleaded guilty today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to charges he shot a Youngstown State University student last February.

Sylean Wilson, 20, will be sentenced April 17 by Judge John Durkin. Wilson pleaded guilty to four counts of felonious assault and a firearm specification on the day jury selection for a trial in his case was set to begin.

Wilson was accused of an early morning shooting Feb. 17, 2013, on Pennsylvania Avenue on the North Side near off-campus housing for YSU students that injured Brittany Johnson, 23 at the time, of Bedford Heights. She was a nursing student at the university.

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