A Pittsburgh man was sentenced Thursday in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve 3 to 6 years in state prison for threatening his estranged wife and holding her gun to her boyfriend’s head.

Mark W. Shearer Jr., 52, was sentenced after both victims recounted the Oct. 30, 2021 incident in which he was shot in his shoulder and leg. He participated in the hearing remotely from the county prison, where he is being held without bail.

Shearer pleaded guilty to felony charges of criminal trespass, aggravated assault and theft by unlawful taking filed by Evans City-Seven Fields Regional Police Department following the Oct. 30 incident at his estranged wife’s home in Evans City.

Judge Timothy McCune sentenced him to serve 27 to 54 months in prison for the aggravated assault charge consecutively to nine to 18 months for the trespassing charge and concurrently with 27 to 54 months for the theft charge. The sentence included 12 months of probation after he is released from prison and $1,759 in restitution.

Shearer entered the home of his estranged wife Dawn Shearer without permission, stole her gun from her purse, barged into a room, held a gun to the head of her boyfriend Joe Czernics and threatened to kill him, according to police.

Czernics managed to get his gun and fired two shots striking Mark Shearer in the shoulder and the leg, police said.

Czernics said Thursday that he constantly thinks about the incident, and said Mark Shearer should undergo drug and anger management treatment after he is released from prison.

“Drugs have ruined our family,” said Dawn Shearer.

She said Mark Shearer was a good man before he became a drug user.

She said her son gave up his college scholarship to return home and protect her. She said she forgives him and hopes that their children forgive him.

Mark Shearer apologized and said he plans to make his “life right.”

The sentence in that case runs concurrently with the 9 to 24 months in prison he received after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of terroristic threats that police filed against him for threatening to kill Dawn Shearer in multiple voice and text messages in July 2021.

The sentence is also concurrent to the sentence he received for pleading guilty to driving under the influence of a controlled substance filed by state police following a Sept. 5, 2021, incident in Jackson Township. In that case, he was sentenced to serve 72 hours to six months in prison, pay a $1,000 fine and complete litter pick up and 40 hours of community service.