Man indicted on murder charge

The fatal shooting followed a fight over losing a video game, the defendant tells police.

By PETER H. MILLIKEN

VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County grand jury has indicted a Crandall Avenue man in Saturday’s fatal shooting of a Canfield man.

Allen K. Frost, 37, was indicted Thursday on a murder charge with a firearm specification in the shooting of Gregory Sopher, 18, of South Raccoon Road, who was found dead in Frost’s living room with a .38-caliber gunshot wound to his head.

Frost told police he and Sopher were “getting high” and got into a fight over “losing a video game.” Frost also told police he had to shoot Sopher to “protect me and my family.”

But Frost’s girlfriend told police she heard Sopher accuse Frost of stealing his money, heard a single gunshot, and saw Frost with the gun and Sopher on the floor bleeding.

Also indicted were Hector Perez of Donation Street and William A. Freeman of Quinn Street, both 30, on an aggravated robbery charge with a firearm specification.

They are charged with trying to rob a Struthers man Oct. 2 in the 1600 block of Shehy Street. The victim told police he went to a Shehy Street apartment with Perez to drink beer.

After several hours, he went outside to sit in his car, and that’s when Perez and Freeman approached and tried to rob him, the victim told police. Perez fired a shotgun in the air, and Freeman waved a knife around, the victim said, adding that the shotgun broke off at the stock as he and Perez struggled over it.

Police, who arrested Perez at the scene, found under a mattress a shotgun that had been stolen in Beaver Township in August.

Others indicted were:

U Steven A. Brush, 21, of Pine Trace Street, Austintown, five counts of rape with two alleged victims, both under age 13.

U Michael Kaufman, 39, of Berkshire Drive, eight counts of rape, five counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of felonious sexual penetration, with three alleged victims under age 13, and with the alleged offenses occurring between 1995 and 2003.

U Evelyn M. Alexander, 22, of East Marion Avenue, felonious assault.

U Selita Traylor, 25, of Norwood Avenue, three counts of felonious assault with firearm specifications.

U Sharyn L. Duponty, 48, of Sanderson Avenue, Campbell, two counts of theft, two counts of forgery and one count of identity fraud.

U Bruce T. Bauer, 47, of North Hazelwood Avenue or Palmer Avenue, cocaine possession.

U Amy L. Wilson, 28, of Millet Avenue, theft.

U Jamal York, 19, of Broadway, vandalism.

U Donna L. Kasza, 47, of Norwood or Stocker avenue, two counts of cocaine possession with forfeiture specifications.

U Frank B. Robinson II, 20, of Rosedale Avenue, cocaine possession.

U Glenetta R. L. Beck, also known as Glenietta R.L. Beck, 20, of West Florida Avenue, cocaine possession.

U Cecilia M. Myers, 24, of Gibson Street, heroin possession with a forfeiture specification.

U Arthur Walters, 47, of North Avenue, being a felon with a gun and possession of a dangerous ordnance.

U Johnny Pringle, 49, of East Boston Avenue, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle.

U Rosalind Robinson-Myers, 46, of Kenmore Avenue, cocaine possession.

U Frederick E. Lynch Jr., 49, and Charles Lynch, 47, both of Crandall Avenue, and DeWayne Cantrell, 44, of Norwood Avenue, breaking and entering and theft.

U James Jackson, 44, of East Wood Street, domestic violence.

U Derrick Harmon, also known as Derrick Harman, 28, of Council Rock Drive, failure to comply with a police order.

U Carlton Sims, 23, of Glenbrook Road, Boardman, vandalism.

U Tyshea D. Taltoan, 22, of Martin Luther King Boulevard, vandalism.

U Ruthanne E. Buckley, 31, and Latashia L. Walker, 23, both of West Dennick Avenue, theft.

U Andrew J. Peterson, 21, of Mayfield Avenue, complicity to aggravated burglary.

U Steven T. Gore, 34, of Regent Street, Campbell, felonious assault with a repeat violent offender specification.

U Kevin D. Matlock, 34, of Cassius Avenue, cocaine possession with a forfeiture specification.

U Sonya A. Phillips, 42, of Chambers Avenue, Campbell, theft.

U Lewis D. DeLoach, 21, of North Avenue, cocaine possession.

U Nelson Santiago, 36, of West Dennick Avenue, two counts of domestic violence.

U Ty’thin T. and Maria Anderson, both 26, both of Martin Luther King Boulevard, cocaine possession and cocaine and marijuana trafficking with forfeiture specifications.

U Alfred A. Griffin Jr., 33, of Manchester Avenue, cocaine possession and trafficking.

U Dennis L. Artis, 42, of Hillman Street, theft.

U Deandre Fant, 19, of Detroit Avenue, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle.

The grand jury also indicted four John Does on drug trafficking charges. It declined to indict Jeremiah Mace on a receiving stolen property charge and Deletaire White on a drug possession charge.