YOUNGSTOWN — Another of the suspects in an incident last Oct. 3 that involved a rifle and a confrontation between three males and a Valley Christian High School football practice at the former South High School has been arrested.

A Youngstown police report states that Boardman police arrested Alfred Coward, 19, at 2:01 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, on a warrant charging him with inciting to violence in Youngstown Municipal Court. Coward was taken to the Mahoning County jail but later released, according to jail records.

The charge is related to the Oct. 3 incident. Coward will be arraigned on the first-degree misdemeanor offense at 1:30 p.m. today.

The charge is the only one in Youngstown Municipal Court records for Coward.

A co-defendant, Edward Agee, 18, of West Evergreen Avenue, was indicted Nov. 20 on two felonies and a misdemeanor — tampering with evidence, inciting to violence and misdemeanor inducing panic — in the case, which is still pending before Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

THE INCIDENT

A Youngstown police report states that at 3:42 p.m. Oct. 3, 2025, a Youngstown police officer was “looking in on” the Valley Christian football team at 1833 Market St., the former South High School, when a coach pointed to Agee, who appeared to be running with an all-black bag with a strap, which the officer stated was later identified to be a rifle.

Agee ran to a car, got in and “drove straight towards me to hit me,” but the officer moved his cruiser out of the way, and Agee drove out of the parking lot and directly onto Market Street without stopping and turned onto Falls Avenue and into Mill Creek Park, the report states.

The officer chased the vehicle to Old Furnace Road. But after it turned east onto Volney Road, the officer lost sight of the vehicle.

The officer then returned to the former South High School and learned from two other officers who had spoken with the football coach and a player that Agee and two others came to the football field with a rifle “threatening to kill everybody.”

While Agee was pointing the rifle at the people on the football field, the other two males “tried to fight victims,” the report states.

The officers were told that the three suspects had seen the first officer when he arrived at the facility, and that is when they “took off on foot in different directions, and Agee, with the rifle, ran to the vehicle.

One of the football players said he had been in a fight with the three suspects the day before on Carroll Street on the South Side. Officers went to two locations looking for Agee but did not locate him.

A short time later, officers found the car Agee was driving on West Evergreen Avenue on the South Side and had it towed to investigate.

Because of the gun, the football game the next night between Columbiana High School and Valley Christian High School was postponed.

Youngstown police said last November that warrants were issued for the arrest of all three of the men involved last November. It is not known who the third man was and whether he was ever arrested.

The Vindicator asked the city’s spokesman whether the third male was ever arrested or not and is waiting to hear back.