Settle gets 46 years-to-life for 2014 shooting, murder

WARREN — Michael Settle, the gunman in the 2014 murder of James Levels, 64, and the wounding of Lisa Prater, 39, at Prater's South Street home, has been sentenced to at least 46 years to life in prison.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court handed down the sentence. Settle, 37, of Niles, was one of two men who entered the house to commit a robbery. The other man, Tyler Meardith, 24, of Warren, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Settle was convicted oat trial of aggravated murder, felonious assault, aggravated burglary and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Two other men involved in the robbery who remained in the car were sentenced to 7 and 12 years. All four have now been sentenced.