The appeal of a Warren man who was convicted in 2023 of wounding a nine-year-old girl with a stray bullet while she was sleeping has been denied by Ohio's 11th District Court of Appeals.

According to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office, the court upheld the conviction of 22-year-old Say'Quan Parks, who was sentenced to 25 and a half to 29 and a half years in prison on charges of felonious assault, improper discharge of firearm into a habitation and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

These charges stemmed from a shooting that occurred in June of 2023 when Parks fired at least 23 shots at another man at the Big Apple convenience store on Youngstown Road SE.

These shots struck a nearby vehicle almost hitting the woman inside and also entered a home on Kenilworth Avenue where a bullet struck a nine-year-old girl in the forearm and caused extensive damage to her bones.

The shots narrowly missed two more females in that home and one more female in a neighboring home.

Parks appealed this conviction claiming his sentence was excessive and unreasonable. However, the appeals court found this not to be the case and upheld Parks's sentence.

Parks will remain incarcerated in the Lake Erie Correctional institution.

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