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YOUNGSTOWN -- Javier A. Hill, 24, was sentenced to three to four years in prison for discharging a firearm into a home.
He also was sentenced for a gun specification in the 11:20 a.m. Aug. 8, 2021, incident in which he fired into a home on Saranac Avenue near Ohio Avenue.
Prosecutors and defense jointly recommended the sentence. Hill received his sentence this week from Judge John Durkin in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Prosecutors said the morning of the incident, police believe someone from inside of the apartment fired at a vehicle containing Hill's sister, hitting her in the chest. She suffered nonfatal injuries.
Evidence indicated that Hill also fired at the building, Nick Brevetta, county assistant prosecutor, said.
Police were unable to file charges against anyone in the building, Brevetta said.
Lynn Maro, Hill's attorney, told Durkin during the plea hearing that the episode "started with Javier Hill's sister being jumped and beaten up, then he and his sister and several other people drove over to Saranac."
Brevetta said there was no evidence of time or place of an earlier assault on Hill's sister, only a text message from Hill indicating he was going to take revenge for something that he said happened to his sister.
Maro said scientific evidence came back from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation that was favorable to Hill, indicating that bullets were fired from the Saranac address "should the case have gone to trial."
That information was part of the plea negotiations, Maro said.