Man sentenced in Youngstown State student's death

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus man has been sentenced to prison in the shooting death of a Youngstown State University student outside a Sheetz store in 2022. 

Tommie Wilkerson Jr., 21, will spend at least nine years in prison for his role in the October 2022 death of Kevin Sobnosky, 21, of Girard. 

Wilkerson pled guilty to felonious assault with a drive-by firearm specification on Monday and was immediately sentenced to nine to 11 years in prison by Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge David Young. 

On Oct. 30, 2022, Sobnosky and his friends stopped at the Sheetz store on North Cassady Avenue when a shootout not involving Sobnosky broke out. Several bullets were fired into the car Sobnosky was in, killing him. 

Prosecutors said Wilkerson was the driver of one of the vehicles involved in the shootout. Keimariyon Ross was the shooter in the car, prosecutors said. Ross was sentenced on Sept. 5 to at least 32 years in prison. 

A third suspect in the shooting, Tyyan Sullivan, was sentenced to 9-10 1/2 years in prison, two concurrent sentences of 3-4 1/2 years for felonious assault and two 3-year-gun specification sentences to run consecutively.

Wilkerson was also sentenced Monday to a concurrent sentence of four years for an unrelated incident in which he rammed a stolen vehicle into a Dublin police cruiser in September 2022.