\u00a0handed down lengthy prison<\/a> sentences for Deininger and Cleveland.<\/p>\nDeininger\u2019s 25-to-83-year term and Cleveland\u2019s 20-to-43-year sentence followed a three-hour hearing that featured more than a half-dozen videos and statements from Gilmartin, his wife, mother, aunt and sister-in-law.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stole our peace,\u201d his wife, Lindsay Gilmartin, said.<\/p>\n
Cleveland\u2019s sentence was the maximum penalty that Barrasse could impose. Deputy District Attorney Sara Varela called him the \u201ccatalyst for this entire chain of events.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge said Cleveland was a \u201cdanger to society\u201d and that \u201cprotecting the public is the dominant goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The courtroom was crowded with state troopers, city cops and Gilmartin\u2019s family. Six reserved rows were not enough to seat them all and more stood against the back wall and near the courtroom door.<\/p>\n
A few rows also seated friends and family members of Cleveland and Deininger. They did not speak up in court. When Cleveland was sentenced, his significant other, who was seated just behind him, wailed and shook.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t a place for you,\u201d said a person trying to comfort her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family is right there,\u201d replied the weeping woman, pointing to the defense table.<\/p>\n
Deininger\u2019s mother, Crystal Eastman, joined via video uplink from Aruba, where she had a pre-planned vacation, and told the judge that her son\u2019s actions that morning in 2024 were so \u201cat odds\u201d with who she raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe befriended people who compromised his morals,\u201d Eastman said.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement believe that Cleveland and Deininger were affiliated to some degree with Gangster Disciples, a street and prison gang founded in Chicago.<\/p>\n
In videos Cleveland streamed live to Instagram on January 11,2024, he shot at the homes of rival gang members, those he called \u201cGDK,\u201d or Gangster Disciple Killer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBow, bow, bow, bow,\u201d Cleveland said in a video as the revolver he pointed out of a car window thudded. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s detective bureau knew of the videos and were working on tracking them down, authorities previously testified.<\/p>\n
By 4:30 a.m., Cleveland started streaming again but now from inside of his home. Deininger was still out, and prosecutors said Cleveland urged him to target and \u201cshoot\u201d another rival gang member in West Scranton.<\/p>\n
A crush of police rushed toward North Hyde Park Avenue. Gilmartin was one of them.<\/p>\n
When Gilmartin and detectives Jason Hyler and Joseph Lafferty, now the deputy chief, found Deininger and tried to arrest him, Deininger started shooting. Speaking in court Tuesday, Gilmartin said Deininger\u2019s gun was close enough to touch when it erupted.<\/p>\n
Lafferty shot back and hit Deininger in his back, buttocks and leg. An ambulance took him to a hospital, where he awaited charged of attempted murder of a police officer. Cleveland was also soon arrested for firing into houses and for solicitation to commit aggravated assault.<\/p>\n
They pleaded guilty to most of their charges in October.<\/p>\n
Speaking in court, both Deininger and Cleveland expressed remorse.<\/p>\n
Cleveland told the judge he was \u201cwrong\u201d and that he will \u201caccept the consequences I am about to receive.\u201d Deininger said he would try to spend what he has left of his life \u201cputting good into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrasse told Deininger he was lucky he was not facing death row, which may have happened had Gilmartin died. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to say I\u2019m sorry,\u201d Deininger said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to believe that. I hope the rest of my life shows that I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors spared the courtroom Tuesday from the most graphic body camera videos, such as the desperate race Patrolman Pat Perry drove to bring a dying Gilmartin to Geisinger Community Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Details of that early morning were brought to Barrasse from the perspective of Gilmartin\u2019s family. A photograph of Gilmartin holding his infant son, Liam, shown on a projector screen.<\/p>\n
Lindsay Gilmartin recounted the phone call \u201cthat shattered my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is a nurse, she said. She knows the survival chances. She knows the realities of brain damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was preparing myself to be a 36-year-old widow,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Sandra Gilmartin, Kyle\u2019s mother, told the judge she stood over her son at the hospital as he hovered on the edge of death. Lindsay Gilmartin\u2019s startling phone call \u2014 \u201cPlease help me! Kyle was shot!\u201d \u2014 was still fresh.<\/p>\n
Kyle Gilmartin did not die. Against the early expectations of those around him, he pulled through.<\/p>\n
After surgeries and months of therapy, Gilmartin is almost unrecognizable from the grievously wounded man taking his first steps into recovery, though he still deals with chronic pain. A long scar runs down the back of his head, but signs of his injuries are less pronounced.<\/p>\n
He also still has a sense of humor. When a reporter asked about his new service dog, a Goldendoodle named Gates, he wryly replied that the dog is a cross between a Pitbull and a Shih Tzu.<\/p>\n
But the presence of Gates, a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder service dog, reflects that Gilmartin continues to deal with more than just the physical injuries of that day.<\/p>\n
His wife, Lindsay Gilmartin, told Barrasse loud noises and sudden movements are triggering. Gilmartin said he struggles to hold a thought for more than a few seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want you to know what you stole from us,\u201d Lindsay Gilmartin told Deininger and Cleveland.<\/p>\n
The shooting took away a career Gilmartin\u2019s loved ones said gave him purpose. Still, Gilmartin signaled he is not yet done serving his community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna find a way to come back and serve it another way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Gilmartin will pray. The wounded Scranton police detective told a crowded\u00a0Lackawanna County courtroom on Tuesday that he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55130,76,55562,55131,55542,55132,55560,55561,55563,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-116935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-aiden-deininger","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-crystal-eastman","11":"tag-deininger","12":"tag-gilmartin","13":"tag-kyle-gilmartin","14":"tag-lindsay-gilmartin","15":"tag-michael-barrasse","16":"tag-sandra-gilmartin","17":"tag-scranton","18":"tag-scranton-headlines","19":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}