The driver, gunman, and supposed ringleader in last year’s drive-by shooting in New Philadelphia are all serving time in prison.
Now, the three men who rode along will be joining them.
21-year-old William Baldez was the first of the remaining co-defendants to be sentenced for his involvement in the October 23rd shooting along east High Avenue.
Tuscarawas County Prosecutor Ryan Styer says Baldez was in the rear right passenger seat and rolled down the window for the shooter.
“So essentially he was certainly running with the pack in the hours before this happened, and he knew this would be a deadly enterprise.”
Baldez will spend three years behind bars, the same punishment common pleas court judge Michael Ernest would later hand down for 20-year-olds John Hoopingarner and Robert Meek the second.
Investigators say another man – 21-year-old Matthew Miller – lured the target outside and was standing with him at the time of the shooting.
He’s due in court for sentencing on august 9th after pleading guilty to an amended indictment charging him with a single count of felonious assault.
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