City man gets six years in prison for firing gun into a car Feb. 26

Staff file photo / Ed Runyan Isaac Bethel, 23, left, was sentenced to 6 to 7 years in prison Wednesday for firing a gun into a car on Hudson Avenue on the South Side. At right is Bethel’s attorney, Rhys Cartwright-Jones.
YOUNGSTOWN — Isaac Bethel, 23, was sentenced to 6 to 7 years in prison Wednesday for firing a gun into a car on Hudson Avenue on the South Side in February. Two people were in the car. One was injured but not by a bullet.
Bethel pleaded guilty in August before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito to two counts of felonious assault and one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation.
Bethel fired the gun about 6 p.m. Feb. 26. A Youngstown police report states that when officers arrived, they found the victim sitting on the front porch steps. He was taken to the hospital.
He said Bethel shot him and said Bethel lived nearby. Officers later found Bethel at Mistletoe and Glenwood avenues, not far away, and took him into custody, the report states.
When Bethel was charged with a traffic offense in 2023, he had an address on Hudson Avenue, according to court records.
Bethel gets credit for 196 days spent in the Mahoning County jail toward his prison sentence.