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December shooting in Steubenville results in prison sentence by Judge Miller

STEUBENVILLE –Shaquille S. Wilson, 22, of Pittsburgh was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Michelle Miller after Wilson pleaded guilty in a December shooting.

Wilson pleaded guilty to felonious assault, with a firearm specification, and tampering with evidence.

Police reported Dan Michael Thompson, 20, of 460 S. Fifth St. was outside a house at 486 S. Sixth St. on Dec. 17 having an argument with another man. That man got into a car driven by Wilson. Wilson then fired shots at Thompson, hitting Thompson in the leg and buttocks. The man in Wilson’s car got out a couple blocks away and returned to the scene, police reported.

Thompson was taken by ambulance to the North End ballfield, where he was flown by a medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital.

Wilson was sentenced by Miller in April to one year in prison after a jury found him guilty of of failure to comply with the order of a police officer and felony resisting arrest, both with a firearm specification, possession of crack cocaine and receiving stolen property. The jury found Wilson not guilty of tampering with evidence and not guilty of a specification for brandishing the firearm at an officer on the failure to comply and resisting arrest charges.

Police on Aug. 12, 2015, were investigating a shots-fired call in the 100 block of South Seventh Street when Wilson drove by. Police reported someone yelled that it was the car involved in the shots fired.

An officer followed the vehicle to Belleview Boulevard, with lights and siren on, when a passenger jumped out of the vehicle and started running away while holding a handgun. A patrolman chased the man and told him several times to drop the gun and get on the ground, police reported. He eventually complied and was taken into custody.

Police reported the car, which was reported stolen out of Niles, stopped on Steele Avenue. Three people inside were told to raise their hands and to get out of the car and to lay on the ground.

Wilson jumped up, ran to the car and grabbed a black object off the seat and started running away, police reported.

An officer chased Wilson for about 150 feet and saw Wilson had a gun in his hand.

Police reported Wilson was told numerous times to drop the gun or he would be shot. He then complied and was taken into custody.

Wilson had crack cocaine in his possession, police reported.

Miller ordered Wilson’s sentence imposed on Wednesday be consecutive to the one-year sentence handed down in April.

(Law can be contacted at mlaw@heraldstaronline.com.)

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