YOUNGSTOWN — Saun M. Peterson 20, was indicted by a grand jury Thursday in the April 15 shooting death of Amya Monserrat, 15, outside of Martha’s Boulevard Bar and Grille on Southern Boulevard.

Peterson is indicted on murder, felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter charges– each with three gun specifications.

He also is indicted on improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and obstructing official business, with another gun specification.

One of the three types of gun specifications in the murder, felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter charges accuses Peterson of a drive-by shooting.

Peterson will be arraigned likely within the next two weeks in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Amya, a student at Valley Christian School on Southern Boulevard, was attending a party when she was shot, police said. She was a sophomore and head cheerleader at the school.

SECOND SUSPECT

A second male, Danyo Sellers, 16, is charged in Mahoning County Juvenile Court with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder.

Sellers was arraigned May 2 in juvenile court and is set for additional hearings in juvenile court Aug. 6 and Sept. 6. There, Judge Theresa Dellick is expected to hear evidence to determine whether there is probable cause that Sellers committed the offenses charged.

Youngstown police arrested Sellers on April 22 on warrants after receiving information and evidence at the crime scene and “supporters from the community,” according to a police department news release.

Youngstown police said Amya was not the intended target. She was “hit by a stray bullet,” according to Capt. Jason Simon of the Youngstown Police Department detective division.

Lt. Mohammad Awad of the detective division said in April that the shooting involved “two groups of people shooting at each other.”

He said the incident that led to the gunfire did not involve a traditional sort of fist fight. “But there was some type of conflict that has been brewing over the course of a couple of weeks,” he said. The parties “shot back and forth at that party, location, restaurant, whatever you want to call that, and about 10:36 p.m., they came back and began shooting at each other,” Awad said.

COLUMBUS ARREST

Peterson is in the Mahoning County jail in lieu of $750,000 bond. Youngstown police went to Columbus in May and brought Peterson back from the Franklin County jail, placing him in the Mahoning County lockup. Peterson was arrested May 3 in Columbus without incident on a warrant issued April 25 in Youngstown.

During Peterson’s arraignment in Youngstown Municipal Court, Elliousa Baier, Youngstown assistant law director, told visiting Judge David Fuhry that Peterson’s case “has to do with the murder of a 15-year-old girl that Mr. Peterson was involved with.”

The judge read from the criminal complaint in the case, saying: “The complaint says he was the person driving the car when the shots were fired.”

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