YOUNGSTOWN — Bond for Jules Freeman, 23, who is charged in the Jan. 22, 2024, shooting death of Allen P. May, 23, on Evergreen Avenue on the South Side, was revoked Monday after Freeman picked up several new charges in New Philadelphia.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney approved a prosecution motion asking for bond to be revoked because of the new charges.

The prosecution filing states that Freeman was free on $275,000 bond until Sunday, when he was arrested by the New Philadelphia Police Department on charge of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault, criminal damaging and unlawful restraint in a Sunday episode in New Philadelphia involving a woman

A New Philadelphia Police report states that a woman told New Philadelphia police that Freeman was looking through her phone and became upset, spraying her with pepper spray, breaking her phone, destroying some of her belongings and choking her multiple times to the point of nearly losing consciousness.

An officer said the woman did not have a smell of pepper spray about her and did not have any red marks on her neck. Her eyes were red and glassy, the officer stated.

Officers went to a home in New Philadelphia and spoke to Freeman, who said the woman gave him the password to look through her phone and he found evidence that she was spending time with other men. Freeman denied that he did anything physical to the woman, but he said the woman hit him in the lip, which was swollen, the officer stated.

He told the officer the woman tried to pepper spray him, and that is when he grabbed the pepper spray. She pepper sprayed herself in the face, he told police, according to the report. Freeman admitted to pushing the woman but only to get her out of the house, the report states. He also admitted to throwing her belongings outside, it states.

Freeman was arrested and wrote out a statement, the report states. Freeman had scratches on his arms, chest and back and said the woman caused them.

The woman said she was at Freeman’s house when the fight took place, and Freeman pulled her hair. The screen on the woman’s phone was shattered. The woman drove to a gas station and called police, the report states.

MURDER

In the May killing, Freeman is charged with two counts of murder and single counts of involuntary manslaughter, discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises, felonious assault and cocaine trafficking, each with a firearm specification.

A Youngstown police news release stated that after investigating May’s killing Jan. 22, 2024, police retrieved evidence and served a search warrant in New Philadelphia, in cooperation with the New Philadelphia Police Department. Youngstown prosecutors charged Freeman in the killing Jan. 30, 2024.

The Youngstown Police Department reported the day of the shooting that the department was made aware of May arriving at the hospital at 1:12 p.m. in a personal vehicle. He was pronounced dead later.

An officer responded to the hospital and found a vehicle near the entrance to the emergency room and blood on the ground, a police report stated.

Officers determined that a “possible scene” for the shooting was East Evergreen Avenue at Erie Street. Officers “located” that scene and contacted detectives and crime scene personnel to investigate.