MAY 24, 2022
ED RUNYAN
Reporter
erunyan@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN — Prosecutors will recommend that Kasen J. Smith, 26, of Lake Park Boulevard in Sebring, get four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to firing a weapon in a restricted area of North Lima, hitting a man in the foot in his home.
Smith was hunting Dec. 20, 2020, when the incident occurred.
The victim’s wife and baby were in the room at the time, but were not hit. The gunfire was prohibited because of its proximity to Market Street and a nursing home, prosecutors said. The gunshot crossed Market Street.
Smith, 26, pleaded guilty May 12 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to charges of discharging a firearm on or near prohibited premises with a one-year gun specification, injuring a person while hunting, hunting without permission and violating hunting ordinances.
Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas…
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