She was a track star, top student and a murdered bystander. Mom struggles with sentencings.

Two men received prison terms and two received probation Wednesday in the exchange of gunfire that led to the 2016 shooting death of a bystander, local Olympian Tyson Gay’s daughter, Trinity.

Trinity, 15, died after she was shot during a chaotic scene in the parking lot of a Lexington restaurant. Her mother was critical of the punishments and the case after Wednesday’s sentencings, noting she and Tyson Gay were the only two out of those affected that lost a family member.

“My daughter was an amazing child. A 4.0 (student). No trouble — ever,” Shoshana Boyd said.

Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone, following the recommendation of a jury, sentenced Chazerae Taylor, 40, to 20 years for wanton murder and first-degree wanton endangerment.

“I’m sorry for everything that happened,” Taylor said in court.

D’Vonta Middlebrooks, 23, was sentenced to 15 years. Middlebrooks shot at a vehicle with occupants that he thought were shooting at him, and he was convicted on charges of wanton endangerment and being a persistent felony offender.

Judge Scorsone rejected a defense request to reduce the sentence for Middlebrooks to 10 years. “I don’t think a reduction is appropriate in this case,” Scorsone said.

Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted Middlebrooks on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of cocaine.

Meanwhile, Lamonte Williams, 22, convicted of five counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, had his one-year sentence probated for five years.

Abe Mashni, the attorney for Williams, said afterward, “Obviously this is a tragedy for everyone involved. We are extremely happy that Lamonte will be home with his family for Christmas. We wish Trinity could be with her family.”

Finally, D’Markeo Taylor, 21, Chazerae’s son, had his 15-month sentence on one count of wanton endangerment probated for five years.

Reading a written statement to the court gallery, D’Markeo Taylor said he was “truly sorry for my role” in Trinity’s death. D’Markeo was a friend of Trinity.

“Trinity had a big impact on all of our lives and we all loved her,” he said.

Trinity, 15, a track star at Lafayette High School, was shot in the lower neck during an exchange of gunfire at Cook Out restaurant on South Broadway on Oct. 16, 2016.

Prosecutors were unable to say who killed Trinity. Her DNA was found on a .45-caliber bullet recovered from the scene, but police did not find a matching gun.

However, the prosecution argued that Chazerae Taylor started a chain reaction of shooting that led to Trinity’s wounding and death. When Chazerae Taylor fired shots into the air, he “manifested extreme indifference to human life and wantonly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death,” the prosecution argued.

The events that led to Trinity’s death started the night before, on Oct. 15, 2016, when D’Markeo Taylor and a friend had been robbed of a gun at Cook Out.

Shortly before 4 a.m. the next day, Chazerae Taylor, D’Markeo Taylor and Williams went to Cook Out to look for the robber and get the gun back. Middlebrooks was at the scene when the shooting started.

An attorney for Chazerae Taylor said at trial that “Chaz” fired into the air because that was the quickest way to disperse people who had gathered in the parking lot of the Cook Out.

But Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Brad Bryant wrote that Chaz Taylor “knew how many people were in the parking lot and could be potentially shot if people fired shots in reaction to his gunfire.”

Boyd, Trinity’s mother, expressed frustration after the sentencings that she doesn’t know who was ultimately responsible for her daughter’s death. And she noted that all four defendants will be able to see their relatives, but Trinity’s parents won’t.

“Me and Tyson have to go to the cemetery every single holiday and every birthday,” Boyd said.

This story was originally published December 19, 2018 at 2:16 PM.