Bond set at $2M for murder suspect

YOUNGSTOWN — A 37-year-old city man is being held in the Mahoning County jail on $2 million bond charged with murder.

Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. of Youngstown Municipal Court arraigned Allen K. Frost of Crandall Avenue on Monday on the felony charge.

Police say Frost killed Gregory Sopher, 18, of South Raccoon Road in Canfield at Frost’s North Side home about 10:15 a.m. Saturday. Sopher was found dead in Frost’s living room with a gunshot wound to his head.

Frost told police that the two 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.”

Frost’s girlfriend, who was the only other person in the house at the time of the shooting, tells a different story, however.

The woman told police she was sleeping in a room, and was awakened by an argument between Frost and Sopher. She told police she broke up the fight and went back to her room.

A short time later, the two began to argue again, the girlfriend told police, with Sopher accusing Frost of stealing his money. She told police she then heard a single gunshot and saw Frost with the gun and Sopher on the floor bleeding.

The girlfriend told police she took the gun from Frost and threw it on a bed. She told police that the gun, a .38-caliber revolver, is kept under the living room couch for protection.

This is the city’s 28th homicide this year.

There were 26 homicides in the city last year by Oct. 30, with three of them occurring on Oct. 30.