YOUNGSTOWN - The mom who held her dying son in her arms following a violent home invasion in Struthers is asking a judge to consider alternatives to being put on trial for a weapons charge.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Anthony Donofrio has scheduled a July 21 hearing to determine if Alexis Schneider and boyfriend Yarnell Green are eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction.

Both were indicted in April on a charge of improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle after police stopped the couple’s car and found a gun underneath the seat.

Intervention in Lieu of Conviction gives an opportunity for offenders with drug dependencies, intellectual disabilities, diagnosed mental illnesses, and those who are victims of human trafficking to receive treatment and rehabilitation, rather than being sentenced to a jail or prison term.

Green and Schneider are scheduled to undergo an assessment on June 24 by the Mahoning County Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes Agency.  The information gathered at the assessment will be submitted to the court.

Schneider is the mother of Rowan Sweeney, who at age four, was fatally shot in September during a robbery at a home in Struthers.  Four others were shot, including Schneider and Green.

Green said a family member gave him the gun just days after the September shooting. The gun had been reported stolen from Boardman.