Man sentenced for shooting at store

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who pleaded guilty to five counts of felonious assault for shooting two people in a South Avenue store last June was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday.

Tyrell Maiden, 25, of Lucius Avenue, can apply for judicial release after 31/2 years of his sentence is served. The state also has agreed to stand silent when Maiden makes his request as long as he has no record of getting into trouble while he is in prison.

Maiden pleaded guilty to the counts Aug. 15 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court along with a specification that a firearm was used to commit the crime.

The sentence was a joint recommendation between prosecutors and defense attorney Tom Zena and was adopted by Judge John Durkin on Tuesday.

As part of the plea agreement, Maiden can apply the time he has served in the county jail, which is more than a year, toward his judicial release.

Maiden declined to address the court before the sentence was handed down.

Police said Maiden went into the store at 3211 South Ave. on June 18, 2014, looking for another man he was arguing with, and several shots were fired, wounding the 25-year-old store owner and a 12-year-old boy who also was there.

Police said the man Maiden was looking for, Levert Dent, 26, of Cook Avenue in Boardman, was not charged in the shooting but did face a count of carrying a concealed weapon because he had a gun during the incident.

A trial in Dent’s case is set for next month.