Elijah J. May

YOUNGSTOWN — Elijah J. May II, 18, is expected to be arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court on charges possibly including voluntary manslaughter in Tuesday afternoon’s shooting at a home in the 500 block of Tod Lane on the North Side.

The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office and the Youngstown Police Department have identified the male who was killed Tuesday as Ray’mon Sims, 22, from the North Side. He died in the 400-block of Crandall Ave. after being shot in the 4500-block of Tod Lane, several blocks away.

May, who has an address on another North Side street, is in the Mahoning County jail. His unofficial charges there are voluntary manslaughter and having weapons while not allowed.

Two counts of violating a protection order are also listed on jail records, but those might be related to two earlier charges on file in Youngstown Municipal Court.

May was arrested Tuesday after 2:46 p.m. gunfire on Tod Lane led to a man driving several blocks from there to Guadalupe Avenue, where the car went through the grass along Alameda Avenue, then into a front yard on the other side of the street and crashed into the front porch of a home at Alameda and Guadalupe.

The gunshot victim and a second man then ran to Crandall Avenue, the next street over, where the victim collapsed and received treatment from ambulance workers out front of a home at the corner of Crandall and Guadalupe.

A Youngstown police report today states that the incident began with 911 calls for a fight with gunfire. It stated “multiple people were fighting, and people were shooting.”

Officers also were advised of the shooting victim being on Crandall, where officers gave aid to the victim. He was taken to nearby St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Multiple witnesses were secured and interviewed, police said.

One woman whose home was in the middle of the shooting called it a “gunfight in front of her residence.”