YOUNGSTOWN — The last of five defendants in a Dec. 29, 2022, “melee” on Jean Street in Campbell that resulted in a man being shot pleaded guilty to inciting to violence Tuesday and received a sentence of three years of probation.

Keyline Alvira-Mercado, 37, of Campbell, appeared before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito. Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Katherine Jones said the basis for the charge was that Alvira-Mercado “was indicated to have been the person who said ‘shoot’ before the shooting incident happened.”

Alvira-Mercado’s conviction is a third-degree felony and she could have gotten several years in prison, but Jones said Alvira-Mercado had no previous criminal record and there was no indication that she “actually possessed a firearm during this melee.” Alvira-Mercado got credit for seven days spent in the Mahoning County jail.

Jones said that is the reason prosecutors recommended probation and no prison or jail time. Alvira-Mercado, who was aided by an interpreter during the hearing, declined to make any statement to the judge.

According to court documents, the 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 he had been shot four times. Four witnesses were giving aid to the victim and one of them said the shooter ran behind a home nearby. Officials have called the episode an argument between families.

A man told police Emanuel Alvira-Mercado approached the man and struck him in the head with a rifle. He then shot the rifle two times at the man’s feet. The victim 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 Christian Reyes-Moliere, 20, 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.

Jones said during an earlier hearing that Reyes-Moliere was considered the shooter in the episode, but Alex Alvira-Mercado, 38, also was considered a shooter.

During Tuesday’s hearing, D’Apolito said disputes among people “are hard enough to understand when we share the language. This has been very difficult, I think, for the state and for the court because not only was there a lot of confusion, a lot of chaos, but trying to replay it and understand it from the parties involved of what happened has been difficult at best.”

Most or all of the five defendants have required the assistance of an interpreter at their hearings.

“I am not certain I will ever know what happened that night other than someone getting shot, luckily not dying, or this would have been an entirely different matter,” the judge said. “I hope everyone involved has learned something from it. I can’t confirm that because I cannot have my usual conversations that I do with defendants,” he said of the language issues.

The judge said he hopes that Keyline Alvira-Mercado understands the seriousness of the incident, “how dangerous the situation was and how lucky you are not to be going to prison.”

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

Christian Reyes-Moliere, 20, of Youngstown, pleaded guilty to 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 Christian Reyes-Moliere to three years and nine months to four years and nine months in prison.

Another of the five defendants entered a guilty plea earlier and will be sentenced March 5.