Elijah J. May, 18, is shown in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court during his arraignment Tuesday on murder and 11 other charges in the April 11 killing of Ray’Mon Sims, 22, on the North Side. At right is attorney Walter Ritchie.

YOUNGSTOWN — Bond remained at $200,000 as Elijah J. May, 18, was arraigned Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in the April 11 killing of Ray’Mon Sims, 22, on the North Side.

Attorney Walter Ritchie entered a not guilty plea for May before Magistrate Nicole Alexander. Ritchie said his client “reserves the right to address bond at the appropriate time.”

It is not known whether Judge Maureen Sweeney, who will oversee the case, will be asked to increase May’s bond. But at the time May’s bond was set at $200,000, he still was in Youngstown Municipal Court, and he was charged only with voluntary manslaughter and having weapons while not allowed.

A county grand jury, however, indicted May on murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, multiple counts of improperly discharging a firearm.

May is alleged to have fired an AR-15 rifle 18 times outside his home on Tod Lane toward the car in which Sims and another man were traveling after a physical fight among the men. Multiple neighbors witnessed the fighting and fled as the gunfire erupted, one witness told The Vindicator.

Several homes on the opposite side of Tod Lane were hit by stray bullets, according to police reports. None of the neighbors was injured.

Shots also were fired at May, but prosecutors said they do not believe this is a self-defense case. A Youngstown police report stated that the episode began with 911 calls for a fight with gunfire. It added that “multiple people were fighting, and people were shooting.”

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

If May is convicted of the murder charge and an attached gun specification, he could get 18 years to life in prison. Other charges he faces could add more prison time.

Sims collapsed in the 400 block of Crandall Avenue after being shot in the 4500 block of Tod Lane, police said. Sims and another man were in a car at the time of the gunfire. They drove several blocks away from Tod Lane before their car went through a yard and hit the front porch of a home on Alameda Avenue.

Sims and the other man got out and went to the next street over — Crandall Avenue — on foot, where Sims collapsed. Ambulance workers gave him medical care, but Sims was pronounced dead at nearby St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.