The perp.
Regards,
Posted on 07/18/2023 10:20:27 PM PDT by grundle
Isiah Hampton had a baby on the way and was surrounded by friends and family who wanted to celebrate when everything changed.
Hampton, 27, of Arnold pulled out a gun and shot two people after he refused to carry baby shower gifts out to his car at the end of the party nearly two years ago, according to prosecutors.
“I feel bad for what happened. I didn’t want to hurt anybody,” Hampton said Tuesday during his sentencing hearing.
Hampton, who pleaded guilty in April to charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment, was ordered to serve just less that two years in jail. Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio paroled Hampton after she gave him credit for more than a year he served behind bars after his arrest following the Sept. 18, 2021 incident at the Kinloch Fire Hall in Lower Burrell.
He was also ordered to serve an additional two years on probation and complete anger management classes.
Prosecutors dismissed one count against Hampton that charged him with aggravated assault with an attempt to cause serious bodily injury.
Police said an altercation that preceded the shooting erupted after Hampton refused to transport gifts from the baby shower.
Authorities said a woman slapped Hampton, who then pushed her backward. Hampton fell to the ground, pulled out a pistol and shot a 23-year old man in the torso and a 16-year-old boy in the buttocks as they attempted to intervene in the fray. Another woman suffered a grazing wound to her leg, according to court records.
Hampton said he has five children including one with a relative of two of his victims.
Assistant District Attorney Anthony Iannamorelli said Hampton’s victims agreed with the plea deal and sentence.
“We do not take this case lightly. This deal satisfies the nature of the crime and forces the defendant not to possess a firearm for the rest of his life,” Iannamorelli said.
The judge admonished Hampton for his behavior and said the sentence she imposed recognized the unique circumstances of the incident, his troubled background and acknowledged a potential self defense argument was in play had the case gone to trial.
“At some point in the generational chain someone has to break the cycle. Somebody has to break the chain. I hope you understand you permanently altered the lives of the people you just heard from. This isn’t a game and this isn’t fun,” Bilik-DeFazio said.
“The victims weren’t the people who started the altercation. This never should have gotten to the point it got to,” she said.
The perp.
Regards,
Very generous with his seed, too.
And there were a total three gunshot victims - but one was "only grazed," so I guess that the writer of this article decided to suppress that info.
"Packin' heat" at a baby shower?! Really?!
Regards,
well, if he was any other type of person, he would be in jail for life.
Savage life.
He will definitely return to prison. Maybe for killing someone.
The judge/magistrate should be in jail for reckless endangerment by letting this irresponsible and dangerous man out of prison.
He’ll eventually kill someone, perhaps one of his baby mommas.
Pennsylvania is becoming the SF/LA of the East.
Argument 4,579,771, demonstrating once again, that our problem is not gun control, it is criminal control.
Your other points are good. This I have to take exception to, though.
I "pack heat" everywhere. All the time. It is prudent.
Especially with low self-control morons like this guy out there.
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