YOUNGSTOWN - A Youngstown man who pled guilty last week to a homicide on Youngstown's south side has learned his fate.

Twenty-three-year-old Jules Freeman was handed an indefinite sentence of 14 to 19 and a half years in prison on a charge of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year gun specification, stemming from the shooting death of 23-year-old Allen May.

Allen May was shot on January 22, 2024 near the intersection of Erie Street and Evergreen Avenue. He was taken to the hospital where he later died of his injuries. Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro described the incident to 21 News as a "drug deal gone wrong." 

At Freeman's sentencing hearing Friday, Allen's mother Christina May described her son as a proud father who had "so much potential and so many plans ahead of him."

"Allen loved to learn new things," Christina May said through tears. "He was a jack of all trades. He could take a car completely apart and put it back together again, always figuring things out with his hands and his mind."

"Like many young men, he made choices and did things in his life that I did not always agree with as his mother," she added. "But none of that takes away from his humanity, his value, or his right to live."

For Christina May, the death of her son was made only more devastating by the fact that he was not the first child she had lost to gun violence. Her 10-year-old daughter, Persayus Davis-May, was the victim of an unsolved homicide from 2021. Davis-May was inside her South Side home when she was struck and killed by a bullet in a drive-by shooting, of which police say she was not the intended target. 

In response to inquiries about the status of the investigation into Davis-May's killing, a spokesperson for the City of Youngstown confirmed that the investigation is still active and urged anyone with information or tips related to the case to contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 330-746-2583.

Despite her pain 

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