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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A Youngstown man will spend the next 38 years to life in prison for killing 18-year-old Terrell Roland in 2008.

Twenty-six-year-old Reginald Everson showed no emotion as the victim's mother, Carol Roland, tearfully told the judge that her family has been given a life sentence of heartache and pain because of Everson's actions that day.

Prosecutor Marty Desmond said, "Terrell Roland was just an innocent bystander to a feud he was not a part of."

The victim was home for spring break and was set to return to school in Columbus on the day he was gunned down in the family's driveway.

Terrell Roland's mother ran outside and cradled her son as he took his last breaths. That's when the victim gave a dying declaration, telling his mother to call police and that Reg shot him.

A friend who was talking to the victim also identified Reginald Everson according to the Prosecutor.

Everson was out on bond for another violent crime related to a robbery and killing at an Auto Zone in Youngstown when authorities say he killed Terrell. "That shows an individual with no heart, and no remorse. He is a danger, he will do this again," Prosecutor Desmond says.

Then it was time for Everson to address the court, and he took no responsibility for the crime, "I would like to maintain I'm innocent. I didn't commit this crime. I have deep sympathy for the Roland family and for their tragic loss, but I didn't kill him. I'm not the killer."

As Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Lou D'Apolito prepared to sentence Everson he said, "The bullet that killed Terrell will be with that family forever. A lot of lives were destroyed, some forever. We have to get rid of the guns in this community."

Everson was sentenced to 38 years to life for the murder and weapons charges. He's ordered to serve that sentence consecutive with the 10 year sentence he received after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in another violent crime. That means Everson will serve a total of 48 years to life behind bars.

Carol Roland, along with her husband James, says it's justice, but not closure because they'll never be able to see their son again, "Terrell wanted to be like his friends. But he wasn't like his friends because he wasn't brought up like that. He was a good person, he wasn't a perfect person. He was smart and he loved his family. He was a somebody. He wasn't a hoodlum out there that nobody cared about, he was a somebody."

The victim's mother says the violence has to stop, "I think it's really a shame that we as black people can't be more together. I mean that's basically what it is, black on black crime. Why? Why? I'm going to go back to what Rodney said, ‘Can't we all just get along?' I mean, because it's really terrible that we're killing up all our black brothers and sisters, for what?"