YOUNGSTOWN — Elijah J. May II, 18, was arraigned Friday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court on voluntary manslaughter and having weapons while not allowed.

He faces charges in the Tuesday afternoon shooting death of Ray’mon Sims, 22, on Tod Lane on the North Side.

May will return to court for a preliminary hearing at 9:45 a.m. Thursday before Judge Renee DiSalvo. He remained in the Mahoning County jail after the hearing, according to Mahoning County jail records.

Youngstown police and witnesses said May and Sims argued and fought in front of a home in the 500 block of Tod Lane near Belmont Avenue before May fired at Sims, hitting him.

May and another male fled in their vehicle toward Guadalupe Avenue to the east then followed Guadalupe until the vehicle left the roadway and hit the front porch of a home on Alameda Avenue, according to a police report.

Sims and the other male fled on foot until Sims collapsed in front of a home the next block over, on Crandall Avenue, where police officers and ambulance personnel rendered aid. He was pronounced dead at nearby St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Capt. Jason Simon of the detective division of the Youngstown Police Department confirmed Thursday that Sims’ death is the third homicide of 2023. The one before that was when two people were killed Jan. 5 by being shot in a vehicle on Interstate 680 near the Salt Springs Road exit.

They are Marquis Whitted and Kylearia Day, both 19. Police were called there for a possible accident and discovered the two gunshot victims in a car with multiple bullet holes.