Woman who provided gun to shooter at Youngstown apartment complex sentenced
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Staff file photo / Ed Runyan Lizette A. Salas, 21, of Youngstown was sentenced to two years of probation and a day-reporting program Friday for giving a gun to a woman who fired it at an apartment building in Youngstown in 2023. Her attorney is Mark Lavelle.
YOUNGSTOWN — Lizette A. Salas, 21, of Youngstown, was sentenced Friday to two years of probation and a day reporting program through the Community Corrections Association of Youngstown after pleading guilty last month to unlawful transactions of weapons.
Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court handed down the sentence on the fourth-degree felony. Salas could have gotten up to 18 months in prison. Authorities said Salas gave the gun to her co-defendant, who fired it into a Youngstown apartment complex in December 2023.
Donofrio also ordered Salas to undergo a drug and alcohol assessment and comply with the recommendations that arise from the assessment.
The elements of the offense Salas committed are that “no person shall recklessly sell, lend, give or furnish a firearm to any person who is prohibited” from possessing one because of intoxication, Marty Hume, county assistant prosecutor, said at Salas’ earlier plea hearing.
Salas’ co-defendant, Phil-Lysha Cummings-Wesson, 21, was sentenced to 21 months in prison Dec. 12 after she pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm on or near prohibited premises and a gun specification.
Cummings-Wesson fired into a habitation in the Valley View Estates apartments on Tyrell Avenue on Youngstown’s West Side on Dec. 4, 2023, prosecutors said. No one was injured. Salas gave the firearm to Cummings-Wesson before Cummings-Wesson fired it, prosecutors said. No one was injured.