A man police say belonged to the South Oakland Crips was sentenced yesterday for conspiring to shoot at two occupied homes in the neighborhood in 2005.

In taped phone calls from the Allegheny County Jail, the two defendants in the case, one incarcerated and one on the outside, discussed targeting specific victims because they were "snitches" whom they believed cooperated with police.

Before sentencing, one of the victims testified she had to sell her home, leave her job and relocate to get away from the threat of violence, but the lesson she learned from the shooting was never to remain silent amid threats.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski, who ruled in the nonjury trial, went above the sentencing guidelines yesterday, he explained, "because every resident has a right to be safe in their residence."

He sentenced Javon Q. Brooks, 18, of East Carnegie, to 2¹/₂ to seven years in prison on two counts of conspiracy and a summary charge of criminal mischief. Mr. Brooks was in jail at the time of the phone calls.

At their joint trial, his co-defendant, DePaul Suzensky, was convicted on two conspiracy counts. A police investigator testified that he communicated by phone with Mr. Brooks about the shootings before and after they happened. His sentencing is scheduled for June 11.