YOUNGSTOWN — A judge granted judicial release Tuesday to Charles Stanley Jr., 35, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2016 in the shooting death of Aldric Jones, 20.

Stanley pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and a gun specification Oct. 14, 2016, before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and received a sentence of 12 years in prison, minus credit of about 2 1/2 years served in the county jail awaiting trial. He was ordered by Durkin to serve five years of probation after he leaves prison.

Stanley was due to be released from prison April 22, 2026, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. But judicial release allows a judge to release a prisoner early.

Stanley, of Boardman, was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, murder and aggravated burglary for the Dec. 29, 2013, shooting death of Jones in a backyard on Fairmont Avenue on the North Side.

Jones was found by police in the home’s driveway about 9:30 p.m. Dec. 29. He died in the hospital the next day of a gunshot wound to the head, according to Vindicator files.

Stanley was accused of breaking into a home in the 100 block of Silliman Street about 6:35 a.m. Dec. 24 as Jones was in the home with Stanley’s ex-girlfriend.

Stanley managed to catch Jones, however, and marched him back into the home at gunpoint, police reports said. When the woman ran up the stairs, Stanley followed her, and Jones ran away. Stanley stole two Christmas presents and broke out all the windows on a car in the driveway with a hammer before running away, reports state.

Stanley confronted Jones over the woman and told Jones the woman was “my girl,” according to Vindicator files.