YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Renee DiSalvo of Youngstown Municipal Court set bond at $1 million Monday during the arraignment of Jonathan S. Simmons, 29, on a murder charge in the Friday night shooting death of Brandon Ogden, 27, in the 2500 block of Ohio Avenue on the North Side.

But the judge also ordered that Simmons not be released from jail as a result of a “hold” issued in a 2022 Youngstown Municipal Court case. The hold was the result of Simmons not appearing for a Feb. 1, 2023, misdemeanor pretrial hearing, according to court records.

The hold was issued by Judge Carla Baldwin of Youngstown Municipal Court on a minor misdemeanor charge of failure to display license plates or valid sticker and misdemeanor driving under suspension or non-payment of judgment, according to court records.

Shaina Rochford, assistant Youngstown prosecutor, asked for the $1 million bond “due to the serious nature of the offense.” She said Simmons has “a criminal history, including three or more violent felony convictions, one of which is a felonious assault conviction.”

Simmons also failed to appear for court “within the last two years,” Rochford said. Simmons returns to Youngstown Municipal Court for a preliminary hearing in the murder case at 9 a.m. Jan. 21, as well as a pretrial in the misdemeanor cases at the same time.

Youngstown police issued a news release Saturday stating that Simmons was jailed early Saturday and charged with Youngstown’s first homicide of the year, the 11 p.m. Friday shooting of a man in the 2500 block of Ohio Avenue.

The Mahoning County Coroner’s office on Monday identified the victim as Ogden. The coroner’s office stated that it was notified at 3 a.m. Saturday of Ogden’s death by personnel at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

An autopsy will be performed, and the incident “remains under investigation by the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office and the Youngstown Police Department,” the coroner’s news release states.

Police said they were called to Ohio Avenue just after 11 p.m. for a man who had been shot and a suspect who fled the scene. Ogden was pronounced dead at the hospital.

“While still processing the scene and interviewing witnesses,” the Milton Township Police Department “stopped Simmons for traffic violations and learned that he was being sought in the Youngstown homicide,” the police press release states. He was detained and taken to the Youngstown Police Department for questioning by homicide detectives and then taken to the jail on a murder charge early Saturday, according to jail records.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court records show that Simmons was sentenced to five years in prison in November of 2015 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to seven counts of felonious assault with one firearm specification and one count of improperly firing at or into a habitation.

The convictions were for his role among several people in a shooting at a Clay Street home on Youngstown’s East Side that police said was sparked by an argument at the Plaza View Court apartments, also on the East Side, according to Vindicator files.

Seven people were in the home. One person was slightly injured and did not require medical treatment. Simmons was 19 at the time.

The Ogden homicide was the first homicide in the city in 2025. There were 20 homicides last year.