YOUNGSTOWN — A jury deliberated three hours Wednesday before finding Kelly P. Wiseman, 52, of Creed Road in Milton Township, guilty on all four counts of felonious assault for shooting a gun toward the house of his neighbors July 30, 2024.

Not only did the husband and wife testify during Wiseman’s two-and-a-half-day trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, but also two police officers who were at the home at the time of the gunshots, including one officer who said one of the shots “whizzed” near his head.

Jurors on Tuesday saw the body camera video of Milton Township police officer Carson Carrell showing him and a Jackson Township officer about to leave the couple’s home after they filled out a criminal complaint and Carrell uttering “Jesus! Get down, Luke” because of the gunshot.

The other officer was “a little bit in front of me. It sounded as if it went right in between us,” and was “very close” both officers, Carrell said. Carrell testified that he could tell the shot came from Wiseman’s home.

In addition to the four counts of felonious assault, Wiseman was convicted of one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation, one count of discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of misdemeanor aggravated menacing.

Wiseman could get more than 30 years in prison when he is sentenced later. Judge Anthony Donofrio presided over the trial.

The final testimony in the trial on Wednesday came from former Milton Township detective Ken Kovalchik. The defense did not present any witnesses. Kovalchik has worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for about two months, but before that he worked as an investigator for the Milton Township Police Department.

He also served as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army for four years. While working for the U.S. Marshal’s Service, he was the lead firearms instructor for the Cleveland field office and was lead firearms instructor in the Philadelphia field office before that and was an adjunct instructor in the Detroit field office.

He became involved in the investigation of the Wiseman incident the next day. He obtained a search warrant for the Wiseman residence to look for firearms, recording and data storage devices, and surveillance video.

Kovalchik said he was aware that there had been an “ongoing dispute” between Wiseman and a few of the neighbors dating back to October of 2023. There were “a number of incidents” involving firearms, he said.

He said the Hahns had reported that someone had fired over the road near their house in the past and were “terrified” of Wiseman.

Kovalchik said when he and several other officers went to Wiseman’s house to serve the search warrant, Wiseman was there. Kovalchik saw 20 to 30 bullet shell casings in the driveway. Wiseman told Kovalchik that he “shoots all the time, and he’s allowed to shoot,” Kovalchik said.

Among the weapons they found in the home was a 22-caliber long rifle. They took possession of the weapons as evidence.

Wiseman told the officers that he has a video system that records and stores footage on Wiseman’s cell phone. He allowed Kovalchik and Carrell to look at the phone. They found videos from July 30.

One section of a video showed Wiseman exiting his house with what appeared to be a bolt action rifle and walking left. It appeared to be the one that they found in the house earlier, Kovalchik said. It was determined that the video of Wiseman leaving the house took place 1 minute and 46 seconds before the incident involving the gunshot passing close by the officers.

When Wiseman left his house, he headed southwest, in the direction of the Hahn residence and the road they live on, North Pricetown Road, Kovalchik said. Wiseman told Kovalchik that Wiseman shoots into a “berm” to the west of his house. A berm is a pile of dirt that prevents a bullet from traveling a long distance, Kovalchik said. West is the direction of the road where the Hahns live. Kovalchik said he and others walked in that direction, but did not find a berm or anything that would stop bullets.

Kovalchik said when he walked around Wiseman’s yard, he observed spent bullet shell casings “scattered throughout the yard.”

The officers had given Wiseman his phone back before they walked around outside. When they returned, Kovalchik could see that Wiseman was “scrolling through his phone.” Kovalchik took the phone back and the videos Kovalchik had been looking at previously in the phone were deleted. The officers took the phone with them when they left.

Kovalchik testified that from his experience with gunfire, there are two bullet sounds. One is a “low-key snap,” like the fireworks children throw on the ground. It is “indicative” of “breaking the sound barrier within inches of where you are standing,” Kovalchik said.

The second sound is a “whizzing or hissing or the sound of good, solid bacon frying.” He said that is “indicative” of a “bullet or projectile passing you probably within yards, within feet to yards.”