One of the eight people sentenced yesterday in connection to an incident that led to the death of Christopher Meli was featured in the Irish News having been shot in the legs just months previously.
Aaron Stilges, with an address in Laurelvale in Crumlin, admitted affray linked to attacks on Mr Meli's two friends, and to assaulting one of the men in December 2015.
Yesterday he was placed on probation for two years.
In February 2015 Stilges was shot four times after masked men entered his then family home in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast.
One man, armed with a hammer, held his mother in the living room while three others entered a back bedroom and shot the teenager once in the ankle, twice in the shin of his left leg and once in the right knee.
The teenager had been previously under death threat from dissident republicans after being accused, along with two friends, of involvement in anti-social behaviour and criminality in west Belfast.
His then four-year-old brother narrowly escaped injury when two of the bullets came through the ceiling, sending broken glass and debris around the room.
