YOUNGSTOWN — Daniel P. Sullivan II of Glenellen Avenue was sentenced Friday to almost 11 more years in lockup for his role in the March 3, 2018, shooting death of Brandon Wareham in a botched robbery on Rhoda Avenue on the West Side.

Sullivan was barely 18 when he was arrested in the killing several weeks after the shooting of Wareham, 18, of Austintown.

On Friday, Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court gave Sullivan, now 20, credit for two years and three months in the Mahoning County jail awaiting trial and sentenced him to 13 years in prison.

Prosecutors recommended that Sullivan get 14 years in prison, but his defense attorney argued for 10.

Sullivan was a key witness in the trial of Michael Sherman, 21, of Wesley Avenue, who was convicted of aggravated murder earlier this year and got 23 years to life in prison.

Sullivan also said he would testify at the trial of Mark Winlock Jr., 20, of Deer Creek Court in Austintown, the co-defendant Sullivan said pulled the trigger.

But Winlock took a plea to the lesser offense of murder and got the maximum sentence of 18 years to life.

Sullivan, Winlock, Sherman and two juvenile females all were charged in Wareham’s death. Police said the females helped lure Wareham to the Rhoda Avenue residence, where Sullivan, Winlock and Sherman planned to rob Wareham of marijuana. Wareham thought he was going to sell the drug.

But when Wareham pulled to the top of the driveway of the Rhoda residence and saw the three men running to his car and Winlock holding a gun, Wareham tried to back up to get away, and Winlock fatally shot him, Sullivan testified.

Sullivan and Sherman were behind Winlock at the time, but under Ohio law, all three potentially faced the same punishment.

Sullivan took a plea to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery in exchange for his cooperation, removing the possibility he would get a life sentence.

The cases involving the juvenile girls was handled in Mahoning County Juvenile Court.

Before sentencing, D’Apolito said he did not view his role in the case to try to “rehabilitate” Sullivan.

“This is about punishment. This is about bringing justice to the family of the victim and trying to do justice throughout this matter,” he said.

The judge said the sentence gives Sullivan “credit for his truthfulness, for his cooperation,” and the judge hoped it would give Wareham’s family “some closure.”

Wareham’s parents did not speak at the hearing. But afterward, Wareham’s father, Dennis Wareham, said, “Of course, we would like Winlock never to be released.”

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