YOUNGSTOWN — Twins Lisa D. Springs and Andrea H. Springs, 21, were sentenced to prison for their role in a March 2024 shooting on Tyrell Avenue on the West Side in which Andrea H. Springs fired a gun at a car containing six people, four of whom were children.

Lisa D. Springs was sentenced to two to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty earlier to one count of felonious assault.

At the hearing, Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Katherine Jones said that on the day of the incident, Lisa Springs was driving a vehicle and her sister, Andrea, “opened fire on the victim’s vehicle. In the car were a front passenger, the driver and four children.”

The front passenger was injured and was taken to the hospital for gunshot wounds, Jones said, adding that the “seriousness” of the matter is the reason for asking for Lisa Springs to get prison time of two to three years. Two victims of the shooting attended the Thursday hearing, but did not wish to speak.

Lisa Springs said she was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident and has two children now. She asked for probation.

Lisa Springs’ attorney, Michael Kivlighan, told Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito that the incident began several days before the shooting when Andrea Springs and another woman were in conflict over a male.

Kivlighan said on the day of the shooting, Lisa was driving Andrea to their West Side apartment complex and parked in front of their building, but they saw a car they recognized.

Kivlighan said there was no plan to hurt anyone. He said Lisa Springs did not know Andrea Springs had a firearm, but Andrea started to shoot the gun without warning. He acknowledged that Lisa did drive her sister away from the area after the shots were fired.

Lisa only had one previous misdemeanor theft offense on her record, Kivlighan said.

Jones told the judge that the victims in the case were not involved in any of the issues that Kivlighan raised regarding an earlier conflict.

D’Apolito said the thing that matters in this case is that “multiple people’s lives were put in jeopardy. And God forbid one of the children in one of those cars was hit with one of these bullets.”

If that would have happened, the sentences that would have been recommended would have been “lifetime prison sentences.” He said a person cannot engage in this type of behavior “and not have severe consequences.”

He asked Lisa Springs to put herself in the place of the people in the other car and asked whether she would want punishment to be given for someone who put Lisa’s children in that type of danger.

The judge followed the prosecutor’s recommendation and gave Lisa Springs two to three years in prison with credit for 114 days already served awaiting trial.

The next day, her sister, Andrea Springs, was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison after pleading guilty earlier to six counts of felonious assault and a gun specification. Andrea Springs got credit for 368 days of credit for the time she spent in the county jail awaiting trial.