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YOUNGSTOWN -- Charles K. Sidberry, 20, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, kidnapping, assault and a gun specification Monday instead of going to trial in the Oct. 3, 2020, shooting death of Issak Villarreal, 19, in Boardman.
Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Sidberry to 18 to 23 1/2 years in prison. Sidberry was indicted on murder but that was reduced in exchange for Sidberry's guilty plea.
Boardman police said it received multiple calls from people around noon about a man being thrown from a vehicle on South Avenue near Western Reserve Road. Villarreal's body was found outside of Extreme Clean Auto Spa, 8525 South Ave., with multiple gunshot wounds.
Rob Andrews, county assistant prosecutor, said Villarreal was killed when Sidberry and two other men went to the Wendy's restaurant parking lot in Boardman, where Sidberry intended to sell a gun to Villarreal. The two other men did not know a gun sale was going to take place, Andrews said.
The four men met in the parking lot of the Wendy's where Villarreal worked. Villarreal got in the vehicle, and a dispute took place over the price of the gun and the amount of ammunition that was supposed to be provided, Andrews said.
"There was a scuffle over the gun between (Sidberry) and (Villarreal)," Andrews said.
One of the men in the car, Marquis Garvin, was trying to get the gun away from Villareal and he "ended up being shot in the lower stomach," Andrews said. "That shooting was unintentional, and he was the victim of (Sidberry's) misdemeanor assault."
Sidberry then got the gun away from Villarreal. "Issak was attempting to get away from the vehicle and he was shot in the back .... and fell out of the vehicle and was pronounced dead in the ambulance," Andrews said. Villareal also had been shot earlier in the elbow.
As another of the men in the car, Kelvin Monserrat, was driving to the hospital the man who had been shot in the stomach, Monserrat wanted to get out and help Villarreal. But Sidberry "showed the gun ... and said, 'You're not getting out here.' That makes Kelvin Monserrat the victim of a kidnapping," Andrews said. He does not know whether Sidberry pointed the gun at the victim of the kidnapping or not, Andrews said.
Sidberry, Garvin and Monserrat then drove to Youngstown, the assistant prosecutor said.
"The state was confident in the case, but it is a defensible case, and because of that we felt the manslaughter with a recommendation of a total of 18 years is a fair disposition," Andrews told Sweeney.
Prior to sentencing, Villarreal's mother, Melissa Villarreal, told Sweeney: "Issak may not have been perfect, but he definitely did not deserve to be shot and killed over absolutely nothing." She said her son "was always there for everyone, and he loved seeing everyone genuinely happy."