Man gets 2-year state prison term for Wormleysburg apartment shooting

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Man gets 2-year state prison term for Wormleysburg apartment shooting
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Joel Kent shook a Wormleysburg neighborhood when he fired into a friend's apartment.

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Joel R. Kent, with his wife and the youngest of their three children looking on, apologized for the August 2021 incident and acknowledged the severity of it, but also noted that he believes the record would show it was out of character for him.Judge Edward Guido’s sentence is squarely within state sentencing guidelines forand Guido allowed Kent’s sentences on two related counts of aggravated assault and carrying a handgun without a license to run concurrently.

No one was in the home in the first block of Campbell Place, Wormleysburg, at the time of Kent’s mid-day rampage on Aug. 25, 2021, and no one was hurt. Prosecutor Daniel Tarvin pointed to the targeted nature of the shooting - at least six different shots fired into the bedroom window where Kent knew his friend slept, often until late in the day - and asked jurors to remember a statement Kent made in an interview with police six days later.

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