YOUNGSTOWN — Emanuel Alvira-Mercado, the final defendant among five who were charged in the Dec. 29, 2022, “melee” that resulted in a man being shot on Jean Street in Campbell, was sentenced Wednesday to two to three years in prison.

He pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of felonious assault and one count of inciting to violence and received the sentence recommended to Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Anthony D’Apolito by Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Katherine Jones. The defense argued for less.

Emanuel Alvira-Mercado, 35, was described in court documents as being the person who approached the victim and struck him in the head with a rifle late in the evening that day. Emanuel Alvira-Mercado then shot the rifle two times at the victim’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, and 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 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, prosecutors said.

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.

Emanuel Alvira-Mercado was aided during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing by an interpreter, as have other defendants in the case, which Campbell police described as an argument between families.

Among the other four defendants, who received their sentences earlier, 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 and got 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 and was sentenced to three years and nine months to four years and nine months in prison.