PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Calling him a miscreant and a hooligan who wastes his 22-year-old life playing video games, a Superior Court judge sentenced a Bucket West gang member to serve 10 years in prison for indiscriminately shooting at a family in a road-rage incident in Pawtucket.

Judge Robert D. Krause accepted Special Assistant Attorney General Joseph McBurney's argument that 22-year-old Xavier W. Spooner should receive the maximum term allowed after he pleaded guilty in the July 20, 2016, attack on the family. McBurney urged Krause to show gang members that such brutality wouldn't be tolerated in the face of escalating violence between Bucket West and Bucket East members over the past year and a half.

"He shot at the ... family for no reason," McBurney implored the court. The family remains so fearful still that they chose not to address the court, he said.

Krause rejected an apology offered by Spooner, of 48 Larch St., Apt. 2. "Mr. Spooner, I have not on ounce of sympathy for you," Krause said in sentencing Spooner to 20 years, with 10 to serve, for felony assault, conspiracy and a firearms charge. The remainder of the term is suspended with probation.

McBurney, who prosecuted the case with Peter Roklan, said the incident began around noon that day, on Japonica Street in Central Falls, when Ailton Oliveira assaulted and tried to strangle his girlfriend.

Oliveira later returned with Spooner and other friends to move his possessions out of her house. This time, the men were armed with a 9 mm Uzi, a 9 mm Glock, and a .38 caliber pistol.

Oliveira got into a fight with the girlfriend’s mother; both pulled out guns and traded gunfire. Oliveira, armed with a 9 mm Uzi, shot the mother and another person. He and his friends then sped off in a U-Haul truck.

As the group headed back to Pawtucket, they encountered the family in the car, which ran a stop sign. Spooner and the others exited the truck and fired at the car, repeatedly hitting the vehicle and an elderly housing complex.

The men then abandoned the truck. Police found Oliveira, Spooner and another man hiding out inside 136 Park St.

Officers and a police dog forced their way inside and arrested the men, also seizing four firearms.

Oliveira, of 9 Stoneham Court, pleaded guilty to domestic violence; felony assault; discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence; and carrying a pistol without a license. He is awaiting sentencing.

Jerremy Alves, of 33 Derby St., Apt. 2, admitted to resisting arrest and was sentenced to a year probation. Joshua Dossantos pleaded guilty to carrying a pistol without a license and is awaiting sentencing.

Spooner was represented by Artin Coloian and Daniel Calabro. One of his supporters called out "Just turn to God" as Spooner was led away in handcuffs by deputy sheriffs.