Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney last week ordered that Clyde E. Hudson Jr., 40, spend several months at Heartland Behavioral Healthcare in Massillon to determine if he is restorable to competency to stand trial in the Feb. 26, 2025, standoff with police at a home on Youngstown’s South Side.

Hudson, who is free on bond, will begin a period of up to four months at the facility after a bed is available for him, court officials said. Sweeney’s ruling followed an evaluation to determine if Hudson is competent to stand trial. He was found not competent.

Hudson was indicted April 17 on a felony charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and a misdemeanor charge of menacing after coming out peacefully from a home on Cambridge Avenue Feb. 26 after a standoff with police lasting about 90 minutes.

The Youngstown Police Department sent numerous officers to Cambridge Avenue, closing off the street at South Avenue and Gibson Street while they tried to talk to Hudson.

A police report stated that Hudson had been staying with a woman at the home more than three years, but on Feb. 26, the woman was upset that Hudson did not “contribute to her household and called him a freeloader,” according to the report.

Hudson got angry and screamed at the woman. He pulled out a gun and pointed it at her while she was sitting on the couch in the living room, the report states. He threatened to shoot up the house and “put one in your head,” the report stated.

Hudson then fired in the direction of the woman, and they screamed at each other while the woman called 911, the report states. She ran to her car and fled.

The woman told police she had a surveillance camera inside the home.

She pulled up the camera on her phone and showed an officer video of Hudson threatening her and shooting at her, the report states. The woman apparently was not injured.