YOUNGSTOWN — Three of the five defendants in a Dec. 29, 2022, shooting on Jean Street in Campbell entered guilty pleas Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, including one who got nearly four years in prison.

Alex Alvira-Mercado, 38, pleaded guilty to felonious assault, inciting to violence in the Jean Street incident and felony child endangering in a separate case. Judge Anthony D’Apolito sentenced him to three to four years in prison on the felonious assault and inciting to violence and another nine months in prison on the child endangering for a total of three years and nine months to four years and nine months.

He got credit for 241 days for time spent in the Mahoning County jail awaiting trial.

His son, Alex Alvira-Camacho, 21, pleaded guilty to felony obstructing justice and was sentenced to three years of probation with no jail or prison time. He was ordered to stay away from Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority properties in Campbell.

Christian Reyes-Moliere, 20, of Pointview Avenue, pleaded guilty to charges of felonious assault and inciting to violence in the Campbell incident and being a felon in possession of a firearm and failure to comply with the order of a police officer in a separate matter.

D’Apolito sentenced him to two to three years in prison on the felonious assault and inciting to violence and another year and nine months in prison on the separate matter for a total of three years and nine months to four years and nine months.

According to court documents, the Campbell shooting happened at 10:15 p.m. Dec. 29, 2022, in the 100 block of Jean Street. Officers were called there for a man lying in the street who had been shot.

When officers arrived, they found the man had been shot four times. Four witnesses were rendering aid to the victim, and one of them said the shooter ran behind a home nearby.

A man told police Emanuel Alvira-Mercado approached the man and struck him in the head with a rifle. Alvira-Mercado then shot the rifle two times at the man’s feet. The man called his brother to take him to the hospital, and other men arrived as well.

As those men were about to get into a car and leave, they were approached by five armed individuals. That is when Reyes shot one of the men who arrived to assist the man who had been hit in the head with the rifle, according to a filing by the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office.

The next day, Campbell police showed a photo lineup to one of the witnesses, and the witness identified Reyes-Moliere as the man who shot the male victim, the filing states.

About two weeks later, another witness identified Reyes-Moliere as the shooter. One of the other witnesses served as an interpreter for the conversation, the filing states. Later, a Spanish-certified interpreter was employed to interpret the interviews and produce a transcript. It indicated that the witness provided a “literal interpretation,” the filing states.

Katherine Jones, the assistant county prosecutor in charge of the case, said Reyes-Moliere was considered the shooter in the episode, but Mercado also was considered a shooter. Officials have called the episode an argument between families.

The incident that led to Reyes-Moliere being convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and failure to comply with the order of a police officer happened Sept. 15, 2024, in Youngstown.

A Youngstown police report states that officers saw a car travel through a stop sign on Sunshine Avenue on the East Side near McGuffey Road. It led to a high-speed chase during which a firearm was thrown from the vehicle. When the vehicle came to a stop on Holland Avenue on the East Side, Reyes-Moliere ran, but was captured by a Youngstown officer. A second person in the car got away.

Reyes-Moliere was already under indictment for felonious assault in the other case at the time. He was taken to jail.

There are still two other defendants in the Jean Street shooting whose cases have not yet been completed — Emanuel Alvira-Mercado, 35, and Keyline Alvira-Mercado, 37.