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Defendants get 17 and 11 years in prison in house shootup
YOUNGSTOWN
Two defendants convicted by a jury in the shooting up of a South Side house after a car-repair dispute were sentenced Wednesday to long prison terms by visiting Judge H.F. Inderlied Jr. of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Tiant Bright, 38, who was convicted of felonious assault with a three-year gun specification and improper discharge of a firearm at or into a habitation with three- and five-year gun specifications, is going to prison for 17 years.
Summer Romeo, 36, who was convicted in the discharge of a gun at or into a habitation with three-and five-year gun specifications, is going to prison for 11 years.
Robert J. Andrews, an assistant county prosecutor, said Romeo drove the vehicle from which Bright fired.
“If you’re going to fire a weapon at a house — or at people — you’re going to go to prison for a lengthy period,” Andrews said after court.
“Sentences like this, hopefully, will send that message to people out there, and maybe they’ll think twice before they start firing their guns,” he added.
Bright, of Idora Avenue, and Romeo, of North Main Street, were convicted in the Dec. 5, 2012, shootings at a Pasadena Avenue home, in which nobody was injured.
Police said the three shootings stemmed from an argument Romeo had after someone repaired her vehicle, but broke the dipstick used to check its oil level.
Judge Inderlied sentenced Bright to six years for felonious assault, plus 11-consecutive years for the gun specifications.
He sentenced Romeo to three years in the gun discharge, plus eight-consecutive years for the gun specifications.
The five-year gun specifications pertain to shots fired from a motor vehicle; and Judge Underlied ruled, based on his interpretation of legislative intent, that all the gun specifications must be served consecutively as well as to the sentences for the underlying crimes.
Neither defendant addressed the judge. Both defense lawyers said their clients maintain their innocence, and the judge said both defendants showed no remorse.