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Youngstown man gets six years for felonious assault

YOUNGSTOWN — Sequan Clinkscale, 25, was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty earlier to felonious assault with a gun.

The sentence was agreed upon by prosecutors and defense attorneys and approved by Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Clinkscale, of Rutledge Drive, was convicted of shooting a man in the 300 block of North Truesdale Avenue in July 2017, according to the Tribune Chronicle’s broadcast partner, WKBN-TV 27.

Police were called to Truesdale at 6:20 p.m. July 20, 2017, by a man who said he was on a bicycle in front of his house when someone in a car fired several shots at him.

The man was able to identify Clinkscale as the shooter, reports said.

Officers collected eight spent .40-caliber shell casings from the street, reports said. Reports did not say if the man was injured.

About a year after the shooting, Clinkscale was arrested on the East Side on July 12, 2018, after U.S. marshals received a tip that he would be standing in front of an Eliot Lane home wearing red shoes, WKBN said.

Marshals, who had been looking for Clinkscale since a warrant was issued for the shooting, found him at the home, but he ran away. Marshals searched the surrounding woods and found Clinkscale because they saw his red shoes sticking out from underneath a pair of bushes, reports said.

When marshals retraced the path Clinkscale took, reports said they found a loaded 9 mm handgun.

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