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Anetta Johns bolted from a courtroom last week after a judge handed the minimum sentence to the man who shot her 2- and 8-year-old sons while firing at another man on a Southwest Philadelphia sidewalk in 2010.
"I don't think it's fair. Five to 10 years for shooting kids?" Johns, 26, told the Daily News last week.
She was not alone in her outrage that gunman Kevin Pickard, 26, who was on probation at the time of the shootings, got such a light sentence from Common Pleas Judge Lisette Shirdan-Harris.
Assistant District Attorney Bill Davis - who asked that Pickard get 32 1/2to 65 years behind bars - left court calling the sentence "ridiculous," and said he would ask Shirdan-Harris to reconsider.
On Friday, the judge did just that.
Speaking before a courtroom packed beyond capacity with angered cops, civic leaders and regular community folks, Shirdan-Harris slapped Pickard with a new prison term of 17 to 34 years after reconsidering the gravity of Pickard's actions and the "severe and life-altering" impact they had on his victims.
"I don't think it's fair. Five to 10 years for shooting kids?" Johns, 26, told the Daily News last week.
She was not alone in her outrage that gunman Kevin Pickard, 26, who was on probation at the time of the shootings, got such a light sentence from Common Pleas Judge Lisette Shirdan-Harris.
Assistant District Attorney Bill Davis - who asked that Pickard get 32 1/2to 65 years behind bars - left court calling the sentence "ridiculous," and said he would ask Shirdan-Harris to reconsider.
On Friday, the judge did just that.
Speaking before a courtroom packed beyond capacity with angered cops, civic leaders and regular community folks, Shirdan-Harris slapped Pickard with a new prison term of 17 to 34 years after reconsidering the gravity of Pickard's actions and the "severe and life-altering" impact they had on his victims.
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