‘You did play a role’: Sentence ordered for lesser participant in killing of Erie boy

Yussuf M. Hassan did not fire the shot that killed Antonio “Espn” Yarger as the 7-year-old was walking on the sidewalk in his east Erie neighborhood in April 2022.

But Hassan, then 20, provided a Glock 43 handgun to the shooter right before the drive-by killing.

Hassan was also a passenger in a car that drove by Antonio and his friends in advance of the shooting. And that car was searching for the intended target — a rival gang member, and not Antonio…

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