YOUNGSTOWN — Kenneth Newton, 26, was arraigned Tuesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a felonious assault charge in a 5:25 p.m. Monday fight at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Bond was set at $35,000 on the second-degree felony. If convicted, Newton could get about eight years in prison.

Police were called to the rear of the mission for a fight between two males. A man there said he took one of the males to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. The officer then saw the other male involved standing with a Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputy working secondary employment. The deputy handed the officer a small bag containing a bloody multitool (hammer on one side and hatchet on the other side), according to a Youngstown police report.

The unnamed male who was involved in the fight said he was talking to a husband-and-wife acquaintance when Newton tried to join the conversation, “words were exchanged,” and Newton called the unnamed man a derogatory name for a black person and spit on him. The unnamed man is not named in the report under Ohio’s Marsy’s Law, which protects the identity of crime victims.

The unnamed male said he approached Newton, who ripped his own shirt off, then produced the tool and said “I’m going to kill you,” the report states. The unnamed man told the Youngstown police officer he “eventually began to walk away” and was “heading home to change his shirt.”

The unnamed man told the Youngstown police officer he “turned around, and Newton was holding a baseball-sized rock that Newton threw at him, narrowly missing.” At that point, the unnamed man said he was in fear for his safety, and he picked up a baseball-sized rock and threw it at Newton,” the report states.

At the same time, the unnamed man fell, colliding with Newton, and Newton struck the man in the head with the “hatchet-end of the multitool,” the unnamed man told the officer. Newton then tried two more times to hit the unnamed man with the multitool, but the unnamed man “landed two punches to Newton, knocking him to the ground, at which time (the unnamed man) was able to pick up the multitool,” the report states. An officer observed the unnamed man to have a 2-inch laceration to the top of his head with “a lot of blood on his clothing,” the report states.

The officer viewed video from the Rescue Mission showing a verbal argument between the men. It showed the unnamed man approaching Newton, but the video does not show who struck the other first. The unnamed male is seen walking through the parking lot and Newton follows on the other side of the parking lot, then throws a baseball-sized rock and tries to hit the unnamed male with it, but misses.

Then the unnamed man picked up a rock and tried to throw it at Newton, but fell at Newton’s feet, the report states. Then Newton struck the unnamed male in the top of the head with the multitool once and then moved off camera.

Officers questioned Newton in the waiting room of the hospital, and Newton had blood on his face and right ear. When he was asked about an altercation, Newton said he had nothing to say. The officer arrested Newton on a charge of felonious assault.

While Newton was trying to file a complaint with a Mercy Health police officer against the Youngstown Police Department, a Mercy Health police officer’s body camera picked up Newton admitting to hitting the other male in the head but said it was self-defense. When Newton was finished with his medical care, he was taken to the county jail.

Youngstown police determined that Newton is wanted in Franklin County for failure to register as a sex offender. That agency was notified that Newton is in custody.

Newton returns for his preliminary hearing at 9:15 a.m. June. 2.