Two men convicted of manslaughter in the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death of Jane Creba have been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
However, with a credit of eight years and five months for time served, the men will only serve three years and seven months.
Louis Woodcock, 23, and Tyshaun Barnett, 22, were found guilty of manslaughter in April, but not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death that shocked Toronto.
Creba, 15, was shot on Yonge Street during one of the busiest shopping days of the year, when she was caught in the crossfire between two rival groups of thugs. She had just crossed Yonge Street to look for a bathroom as her sister shopped in the old Sam the Record Man store.
Woodcock and Barnett were also convicted of four counts each of aggravated assault, related to people wounded by stray bullets in the gunfight.
They were sentenced to eight years on those counts, to be served concurrently with the manslaughter sentence.
Both men served four years and 11 weeks in pre-trial custody.
Justice Gladys Pardu said the two men, both 18 at the time of the shooting, were partly responsible for Creba's death by bringing guns down to Yonge Street.
Two other men, Jeremiah Valentine and Jorrell Simpson-Rowe, have been sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder in Creba's death.
Toronto police Sgt. Savas Kyriacou, the lead investigator, pronounced himself satisfied with the verdict.
"It's very clear that our justice system ... is working, and we're fortunate to have this kind of system," he said.
The court has "They've sent the appropriate messages out for those people who choose to conduct themselves in the manner that the people that took part in that shootout on Yonge Street chose to conduct themselves," he said.
Both Woodcock and Creba expressed their sorrow to the Creba family.
However, the Creba family was not there to hear the words of the convicted men. CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney said the Creba family never attended any of the court proceedings.
"They are very private people," and didn't want to be part of the public court spectacle, he said.
Kyriacou tried to call the Crebas on Thursday but wasn't able to reach them, he said.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney
