Pittsburgh man gets probation for role in 2013 North Side shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who pleaded guilty to charges he slammed the door on police investigating the shooting of a Youngstown State University student last February was placed on two years’ probation.

Rashaud Lewis, 20, of Pittsburgh, received the sentence today from Judge John Durkin of Mahonng County Common Pleas Court for a guilty plea earlier this year to a charge of obstruction of justice, a fifth-degree felony.

The sentence was recommended in the plea agreement reached by prosecutors and Lewis’ attorney, J.P. Laczko.

Another man, Sylean Wilson, 20, also of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty March 10 to a charge of felonious assault for his role in the case. 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, of Bedford Heights. She was a nursing student at the university.

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