October 23, 2023 • 29 mins
Witness the role of advanced GPS tracking & Project NOLA in crime-solving. #TrueCrime #Podcast
Here's a chilling tale of a single moment that turned a festive evening at a local nightclub into an unthinkable nightmare. Imagine, a Christmas party in Jonesville, Louisiana, filled with laughter, music, and joy, suddenly shattering into dread and confusion with the senseless murder of a young man, DaJohn LaMichael Mitchell. We navigate the complexities of this tragic incident, taking you from a seemingly innocent bump on the dance floor to the unraveling of a terrifying crime.
We venture into the heart of the investigation, following the trail of a local rapper and purported member of a Mississippi gang, identified through a detailed examination of social media and advanced GPS tracking technologies. We also delve into the important role of Project NOLA, a pioneering HD crime camera system in the US, that substantially aided the case. We remember DeJohn, a loving father, son, and friend, whose dreams were prematurely ended. This episode is a poignant dissection of a terrifying incident and a touching tribute to a life tragically extinguished. Join us for this compelling narrative, a stark reminder of the fragility of life and the senselessness of violence.
Source Materials:
- https://thecinemaholic.com/dajohn-mitchell-murder-where-is-jordan-damonte-johnson-now/
- https://thesource.com/2021/12/24/ms-rapper-yungen-gunnin-convicted-of-murder-for-shooting-and-killing-man-while-performing/
- https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2022/01/31/natchez-rap-artist-gets-life-plus-20-years-in-prison-for-murder-felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm/
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Kellye (00:00):
Around 1 am on December 15th 2018, police got a call
about shots being fired inalocal nightclub in Jonesville,
louisiana, and, upon arriving atthe scene, found one
23-year-old male dead on thefloor and another 23-year-old
male in the wind.
Come with us into the story ofa senseless crime for a
senseless reason and the use ofan amazing nonprofit program to
(00:22):
finally find and arrest thesuspect on this episode of Sin
Law.
Hello and welcome to thisepisode of Sin Law.
I'm Kelly and I'm Kyler, andhave I got a story for you today
(00:44):
, although this one didn't takelong to solve, as in terms of
who did it or catching thesuspect, it also wasn't really
hard to figure out why.
But the reason why is soincredibly vain that it's hard
to believe that this crimeoccurred at all.
Are you ready for this?
Probably not.
Kyler (01:04):
Okay, I'm done, but I know you're not.
Kellye (01:08):
Alright.
So on December 15th in 2018,DaJohn LaMichael Mitchell of
Clayton, Louisiana, which isjust north of Faraday, along
with some of his friends, theydecided to go to a Christmas
party at the Sugar Shack inJonesville.
Sugar Shack.
And it's spelledS-U-G-A-S-H-A-K.
Kyler (01:29):
I know you're just trying to pronounce it too hard.
Kellye (01:31):
I am, because I'm .
Kyler (01:32):
It's just a Sugar Shack.
Kellye (01:33):
I enunciate.
So they were going to thisparty and this party was
reported to have it had beenadvertised as having an awesome
DJ as well as a well-knownrapper from the area, and that
made everybody that much moreexcited for this event.
It was also put out on socialmedia that there were gonna be
(01:54):
drinks and it was just gonna bean all-around good party.
What'd you say?
Kyler (01:59):
Nothing, I was just singing the song wrong.
Kellye (02:02):
Not unusual.
DaJohn and and some of hisfriends went ahead and cruised
over to the Sugar Shack that wasin Jonesville to attend.
Thank you, I'm doing my best toattend this party and,
according to friends ofwitnesses, as soon as DaJohn got
there, I could have done betterin enunciating that DaJohn,
(02:24):
it's D-A-Apostrophe John.
Oh, yeah, okay, so I'm havingto de-juh, de-juh.
Kyler (02:30):
Yeah, I know, I thought you were doing a D-E and just
pronouncing it de-uh, like a lotof the white people's do.
Kellye (02:37):
Well, I'm the whitest of white people.
I know that's why I thought thatOkay so according to friends of
witnesses, as soon as Dejon goton the scene, he started
enjoying himself as one would.
He was drinking, listening tomusic.
Some even say that he wasactually in the DJ booth playing
the music the usual and beforelong people started getting more
tipsy and starting starteddancing and, you know, getting
(03:00):
into it.
Now this party, like Imentioned earlier, was going to
have a rapper there and thisrapper was known by the name
Youngin Gunnen.
His real name was JordanJohnson and he had hyped up this
event on his social media Ibelieve it was like Instagram
and Facebook and had done a lotof videos like John Swills,
(03:20):
gonna Be Hoppin' and all of this.
Kyler (03:22):
We're gonna get it hoppin' up in here.
We're gonna get it hoppin'.
Kellye (03:25):
So Youngin Gunnen and his crew were there and he was
performing throughout the nightand he had actually hired and
paid a promoter to film hisperformance and interactions at
the.
Everybody called it a nightclub, it's literally just a shack,
but at the sugar shack thatevening.
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And so while he was there anddoing his performance and just
hanging out, the filmer wasfollowing them around and it
came to pass that Youngin Gunnenand to John ended up crossing
paths later that evening andbecause Dejon had been drinking
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and was just dancing and feelinghimself, he saw the camera and
he made his way to be able toget over it in front of the
camera and to get into the frame.
He was dancing, like I said,having a good time, and
eventually he kind of bumps intoone of yeah, and it's hard to
(04:29):
tell from the video and thereason.
And the video that I'mmentioning I actually saw on a
segment of a show oninvestigation discovery.
It's called Real Time Crime andit was season one, episode four
, tailgate Terror SlashWrapsheet, and the part of the
episode is the second part, theWrapsheet part that covers this
(04:49):
story, and they have multiplevideos from that night that were
from different cell phones, aswell as the promoter video and
so if you want to check that out, that's a really good resource.
Just see those.
If you want to check out thosevideos, you can see on these
videos that he's obviouslyhaving a good time maybe a
little rambunctious, butotherwise just good fun.
He dances in front of thecamera frame and you can
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actually see him bump intosomeone and then just kind of
roll off and keep dancing and asone would do at the club.
Right, yeah, you're just youknow you're dancing, having a
good time, you bump intosomebody.
You know big deal.
You just keep doing what you'redoing.
Kyler (05:24):
Everybody's having a good time.
Exactly, hit me on the shoulder, that's fine, just don't step
on my shoes.
Kellye (05:28):
And that's a big deal for women and for men when they
go to the club.
You don't step on my shoes,don't spill any kind of drink on
my shirt or my dress.
Kyler (05:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna talk about that.
Kellye (05:39):
Well, some people do, especially if they're wearing
silk.
Kyler (05:43):
You know what I mean.
If silk is one thing, white isanother thing, yeah, but like
any other instance, I reallydon't care.
Kellye (05:48):
Okay so, and that's understandable, as most humans
would, that's how we would react.
Just keep on vibing, having agood time.
Kyler (05:56):
Now you do it on purpose.
That's another story.
Kellye (05:58):
Absolutely, absolutely agree.
And you can see again Dejonstill trying to keep himself in
front of the camera, just kindof goofing off, and he bumps
into a person again, but insteadof you know, a normal human
reaction of you know eitherstepping out of the way or just
kind of moving around, moving on, this time the dude who bumped
into comes out swinging.
(06:18):
And what happens when you havea small area with people
drinking and dancing and then apunch gets thrown?
Kyler (06:28):
A lot of punches get thrown A lot of punches get
thrown exactly.
You can turn a rap concert intoa heavy metal concert in just
one snap.
Kellye (06:36):
Yep, go from zero to To mosh pit To mosh pit in.3
seconds, flat right.
So the only difference in thisstory is that someone brings out
a gun in a fist fight.
According to court records,dejon was shot at least five
times, possibly six, most on theback lip, most side of his body
(06:56):
.
And according what do you mean?
Possibly, because there's I'llexplain this more later but
there's one that they don't knowfor sure.
If it was just shrapnel fromanother bullet, okay, he was
shot at least five times,possibly six, with a 380 pistol,
the opp Mm-hmm.
Yeah, the autopsy noted thatsome of the wounds could have
been caused by fragments fromthe other bullet or another
(07:16):
gunshot itself, but it wasunable to be definitively
determined.
And all shots were noted tohave a trajectory of back to
front, meaning that all fivetimes and possibly six, he was
shot in the back.
Of course.
Once the shot shots rang out,everyone scatters and runs out
of the building.
Oh yeah like turning on a lightswitch and all of the
cockroaches with the light.
(07:37):
There you go.
Kyler (07:38):
Didn't we determine recently that 380 was the same
as a 9?
Kellye (07:42):
millimeter.
They can be used in the sameweapons.
Yes, the friends that had cometo this party with the John soon
realized that he had not exitedthe building with them and I
believe it was his cousin, who Ithink is also on the ID episode
.
He ran back to see where he wasand saw him laying on the floor
quote unconscious and unmoving,I'm quote.
When the police arrive on thescene, they find a group of
(08:06):
party growers outside huddledaround in different groups, and
then, upon entering the sugarshack, they found Dejon lying
face down with a gunshot woundsand they also found spent
casings of the Winchester brand380 caliber.
But otherwise they didn't findAny other leads, there was just
the, the bullet casings.
(08:26):
Hmm, to make this whole thing alittle bit more heart-wrenching,
dejon's father was a lieutenantwith the Concordia Paris
Sheriff's Office at the time andhe heard about the shooting and
took his Patrol car, runninglights and sirens, to the scene,
only to find out that hisfirstborn son had been shot to
death In the ID episode.
It just hit so hard and yourheart breaks for him, and in
(08:47):
more than one way throughout theepisode.
But I'm not gonna say any moreabout that.
If you want to see it.
Go watch it.
Kyler (08:54):
Real-time crime episode for season one Hmm now said you
know that offhand that's notmany notes folks.
Kellye (09:06):
So now, while talking to an interviewing witnesses, it
was tough going because, despitethe crowd of potential
witnesses, most people did notwant to get involved and Many
more claimed they saw nothing.
Kyler (09:18):
Absolutely.
Somebody just got shot forbumping into somebody.
Kellye (09:20):
You say something about him, you gonna get shot too and
even more so, this was due well,the invest investigators
believed in part to the factthat the rapper and his crew
were purportedly Involved with apart of a Mississippi gang
known as 500 Navy, or 500 Navybabies.
Kyler (09:37):
I'm not sure.
Yes, the 500 Street, god damnit.
Kellye (09:42):
It's, it's weird 500 Navy Babies Street gang.
Is that what we figured out?
Okay?
Kyler (09:49):
I just I keep wanting to say 500 Street or 500 Navy.
Street Street.
Kellye (09:53):
Yeah, so those are wrong anyway, so that they think that
that was part of the reason whynobody wanted to talk.
They were scared of retaliationand eventually, what witnesses
they did get to talk mostlyrequested that their names not
be used and they didn't testifyat the trial.
However, they did Eventuallyget some identifying
(10:13):
descriptions of the clothes hewas wearing and Apparently he
had on a bright red NASA shirts.
It was like a bright red shirtwith NASA and big letters across
the front and some jogging orwind pants that had two red
stripes down the side of thepants and this person had been
spotted with a gun and the nameof the rapper, young and done in
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Jordan Johnson.
Kyler (10:35):
Apparently, their entire group was dressed in red.
I believe it, especially ifthey were considered to be part
of that game, which would makesense, which is interesting to
me, because I would have assumedthat the 500 Navy baby gang
would have been associated withthe Crips seeing as I'm a baby
right is in is a hue of blueright, it didn't make any sense
(10:56):
to me there.
All I can think is that thereit's a it's to do with the bee,
the Navy baby for the blood.
Kellye (11:04):
Yeah, maybe I'm not sure .
I don't know how gangs work.
I've never been in.
Well, you essentially can't sayRight, right, right, that would
make sense.
Again, I don't know how many ofthat works, but that makes sense
.
So they get the name of himbeing Jordan Johnson, who was
supposed to perform, and that hearrived with his entourage that
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were all dressed in red,according to the news reports,
and the officers quickly get ina restaurant for him as a prime
suspect in the shooting andbegin the search for his
location.
While doing this, the Cata JulaParish Sheriff's Office, which
was the main sheriff's officethat was handling the case, was
talking to another entity thatworks out of Baton Rouge,
(11:48):
louisiana, called Project NOLA.
Project NOLA is a nonprofitorganization that we're going to
talk more in detail about herein just a second, but they
basically use live camera feedsfrom all over to be able to help
locate wanted suspects, amongother things, and the sheriff's
office, using social media andJordan Johnson's own photos
(12:10):
posted, they were able to getthe make and model of the
vehicle they had been in, aswell as a license plate number,
and, using that, the licenseplate readers on the
Natchez-Fidelia Bridge thatcrosses the Mississippi River,
they were able to see that thatcar with those plates had
crossed the Mississippi Riverand about the same time.
They actually got a phone callfrom the Merritt Hospital in
Natchez.
(12:30):
I believe that had anothershooting victim.
Kyler (12:37):
Yeah, it was Crescian Malone, it just says at A
Natchez Hospital had soughttreatment there because he had
also been shot in the in thealtercation and he had told
personnel there that he was shotin Jonesville.
Kellye (12:57):
His wounds were non-life threatening.
I think he just got shot in theleg.
I think it did.
Kyler (13:01):
It doesn't say, but it doesn't say that they were
anything serious.
Kellye (13:04):
I think it was in a different news article, but yeah
, so there was a coupledifferent leads that told the
officers at that point theinformation that they got from
the license plate readers andfrom the witness at the hospital
that Jordan Johnson was likelyin Natchez.
The investigators knew thatthey would not have to involve
Adams County in the search forJordan Johnson and upon
(13:27):
contacting that police force,they realized that he had
currently, or Jordan Johnson wascurrently, on probation and
parole for a 2014 incident wherehe pled guilty to three counts
of aggravated assault.
Kyler (13:40):
Because he took out a gun and shot into a full vehicle.
Kellye (13:47):
At least three people.
At least three people gotinjured out of that incident.
There were three or more in thevehicle, but three of them were
actually shot, and at thatpoint he was actually only.
Kyler (13:56):
One bullet wounded three people and he was only 18 when
that happened, in 2014.
Kellye (14:04):
I thought it was 14,.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Kyler (14:06):
He said it was sentenced to 10 years.
Five years suspended.
Kellye (14:11):
But he had literally just got out on probation in a
couple months before.
Kyler (14:15):
And 2018 in June, six months before this incident in
December.
Kellye (14:22):
So, knowing that, knowing that he was on probation
, they went ahead and contactedhis parole officer and got
Jordan's cell phone number,which they then used to pinpoint
his location using the GPStracking on his phone, and they
relayed this information back toProject NOLA.
So they actually were able toping his phone and it just so
(14:43):
happened that Project NOLA hadaccess to the cameras covering
the entirety of the complexwhere his location was showing
at the holiday apartments andmatches.
Kyler (14:54):
Now, Sorry, it's okay, it's a way backtrack, but I
thought I'd read this and I justcouldn't remember where it was.
This one says that thishappened while he was performing
.
Kellye (15:11):
I don't know that that's .
Kyler (15:13):
Because on the back it says that it who allegedly
bumped into him and then a fightbroke out, right, but like it
just says, that a rapper who,while performing, shot Mitchell
and then stood over him and shothim some more.
Kellye (15:24):
Yeah.
Kyler (15:26):
Maybe, it just means that during his yeah, during his
stay there at the venue while hewas performing Right.
Yeah, I think that's more of ageneralized.
That's it.
I remember reading it the otherday and it just struck me as
damn no.
In the middle of a song he justpulls out a gun.
Kellye (15:40):
No, and you can see on the video that it wasn't a quote
unquote performance thepromoter or filming the guy who
was filming everything.
You could tell by the situationin the videos that he wasn't on
stage or it wasn't like a shotof him doing rapping.
I don't even think I saw a micor anything on those videos.
Kyler (15:59):
I could be wrong, but it's a sugar shack and it's only
so big, exactly, you don'treally need a stage or a mic or
a.
Kellye (16:05):
Well, I mean at least like a circle around them or
something you would think.
I don't know how these thingswork.
Kyler (16:11):
If there's going to be a circle, then the people rapping
are still in the circle, becauseit is a back and forth Look
look, the only thing I knowabout rapping underground is
like eight miles, so don't Justdon't, don't be judgey.
Kellye (16:24):
So when Project NOLA monitored the live streams which
is another part of what theycan do here they happened upon
the vehicle that matched thedescription and it came into the
frame and they watched aspeople exited the car and all of
this was live, and they watchedthem as they went into an
apartment.
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So they knew from the videothat they were watching, they
could see the vehicle, theycould see them exit and they
knew exactly which apartmentthey went to.
And they relayed thisinformation back to Adams County
and Cato Hula Parish andConcordia.
Kyler (16:56):
Parish.
Kellye (16:57):
Adams County is the county right across the bridge
in Mississippi.
Kyler (17:02):
Okay, I just know that there was the PSO, I'm not sure
which.
Kellye (17:07):
Well, at this point, they had multiple agencies.
They had Adams County, they hadConcordia Parish, they had Cato
Hula Parish, because theyeverything, the Pee just stand
for fucking Parish.
Kyler (17:14):
Yes God damn it, yeah.
So I thought that was gonna besome specific.
Kellye (17:20):
No, Damn them.
Well, after they figured outwhich apartment that he was in,
or what the suspected allegedapartment, they then focused
their attention on watching whocame and went out of this place,
and after watching for a while,they were actually to visually
confirm that Jordan Johnson wasindeed one of the people in this
apartment.
So then things upgrade to warpspeed.
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Everybody's moving, everybody'sgetting everything mobilized.
They get the special task forceteam, they get Adams County
SWAT, they get ready to roll onthis location and, as they're on
their way, the sergeant If youknow anything about cops, when
they're ready, they're ready.
Kyler (17:54):
Right, they may take a little while to get ready, but
when they're ready, they ain'tno stopping them.
Kellye (17:58):
And as they're on their way, the sergeant of the SWAT
team is watching the feed liveon his phone outside of this
apartment building.
Kyler (18:06):
That's fancy.
Kellye (18:06):
And that is all thanks to Project NOLA.
Project NOLA is the one who hasaccess and they can straight
send it to the police forcetheir phone, so they can
actually watch the live feed asthey're on their way to go do
this arrest.
Kyler (18:21):
Well, is it that they send it to them, or is it that
the police force has rented outor has bought these cameras, or
the use of these cameras forhowever long, and that they're
able to use it because they haveit?
Kellye (18:33):
That I can't answer for sure.
But what I know about theProject NOLA itself is I know
that for public and privacy theyonly keep recordings for so
long and they only allow policeforces to use them once they
request it Right, right, right.
Kyler (18:49):
So police may be able to buy their cameras for their own
purpose For their monitoring.
Yes, For their own personal use, but only specific cameras.
Kellye (18:58):
Only specific cameras at times, and if Project NOLA has
access to all of them, that'sexactly correct.
Kyler (19:01):
Okay, got it.
Kellye (19:02):
Because they don't want the public's rights and friends
drawn but at the same time themonitoring system is always
there if they need it.
Yes, absolutely.
They're trying to watch andmake sure that there aren't any
children around, because this isan apartment complex, so
they're trying to pay attentionto the surrounding areas and
they actually notice.
As they're on their way, theysee Jordan Johnson and a male
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accomplice coming out of theapartment and getting into the
car.
However, he doesn't make it.
However, thomas Bays, thomasBays.
However, he doesn't even makeit off of the same street that
the apartment's on before theyarrive.
Kyler (19:41):
And that's the benefit or the drawback of having live
camera for you.
That's exactly right.
Kellye (19:47):
And I mean, there wouldn't have been much they
could do about it otherwise.
But if you had got off thestreet they would have been able
to at least see which directionhe went.
But that didn't matter, becausethey got there, they arrested
him and took him into custodywithout incidents, and what
you're talking about.
Kyler (20:01):
Well, I mean Honestly, I mean like, granted, what's he
gonna do?
But still there's enough ofthem that'll try just about
anything.
So it's just good for thepolice force, Absolutely.
It's so much safer for thecommunity and everybody.
Kellye (20:13):
yeah, and it's nice when that happens.
It's not always the case, butit is nice just for the safety
of our officers and for thesafety of the people involved.
Kyler (20:21):
He may be a murderer but Absolutely, with the safe I mean
screw him, and it's far saferfor the community as a whole.
Absolutely, it's just.
I was gratified to hear that.
Kellye (20:36):
No incidents or resistance.
Kyler (20:37):
A suspected or alleged gang member and known, Known
violent, known to have a temper,didn't have any delusions, not
delusions of fighting it outwith the police and either
winning or dying Right.
So they put how many times doyou win?
Kellye (20:59):
Right?
Well, because you can.
Only, there's only the twooptions to be the winner.
Kyler (21:04):
Yeah, but how many times have you heard about them?
Well, I mean, you wouldn't hearabout them anyways.
They would stress the hell outof that, probably.
Kellye (21:10):
Anyway.
So they got him into custody noincident, no resistance, and
that was on December 15th at1240.
So from the time they got thecall to the time he was arrested
, it was about 10 hours becausehe was arrested at 1240 on
December 15th.
So he was taken to the CatoHula Parish Jail where he was
booked on one count of seconddegree murder in a felon in
possession of a firearm and hewas held without bond until his
(21:32):
trial.
From the time of his arrest,jordan Johnson refused to talk
and insisted he was innocentthroughout his trial, but he was
eventually found guilty on bothsecond degree murder and
possession of a firearm.
In 2021.
He was sentenced to life plus20 years for the firearm charge.
Kyler (21:48):
Incidentally, when he was , the jury made its verdict on
December 16th of 2021, so just aday later, three years later.
Kellye (22:00):
Three years in a day, yeah, and at this point in time
I know he's still incarceratedand going through his appeal
process and has some court datescheduled for that pending this
year.
But as it stands he is still injail and will be pending an
appellate win at some point inthe future, but there's no way
of knowing for sure which waythat'll go, so unless he's got
(22:22):
some kind of substantialevidence, otherwise, I'm pretty
sure most of the time with anykind of appeal they stick with
what the jury decides, becausethat's what they're for.
Kyler (22:30):
So yeah, yeah, unless Project Innocence comes in and
starts hoping, or something.
I highly highly doubt that one,I do as well.
But you know they've taken onsome things that a lot of people
have highly, highly doubted.
Kellye (22:43):
I mean, you never know, and they'd kick the ass and all
people are found, you know, butI mean, he's already been found
guilty, so we don't even need tosay that.
And on a more serious note, Ijust want to take a moment to
remember the victim here, asthey so often get lost in these
retelling of what is reallytheir stories.
And according to an articlewritten by the Cinema Hallick,
who wrote an article just afterthe release of the investigation
(23:07):
discovery show I mentioned,dejan was described as
kindhearted and down to earthwho loved enjoying life and
going out with his friends.
He was going to be quitehelpful and had no trouble
making friends and had big plansfor his future, I think.
In the episode his father saidhe wanted to one day play in the
NBA, but according to a coupledifferent places, football was
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his passion and in high schoolhe received all district in both
football and basketball and healso ran track.
Kyler (23:34):
Yeah.
Kellye (23:35):
Yeah, he also left behind a son, aiden, who was
four at the time His daddy wastaken from him, an entire family
and multitudinous friends thatlove him and miss him dearly.
He was only 23 years old at thetime of his senseless murder.
That should have never, neverhappened, not over something as
frivolous as bumping intosomeone or even to shump Like
(23:58):
are you kidding?
Kyler (23:59):
This article said that it may not have even been Johnson
that actually bumped into him.
Kellye (24:06):
It was a member of his crew or whatever that bumped
into it, something so ridiculous.
Kyler (24:13):
To John who was dancing, allegedly bumped into Johnson or
a member of his hunderage, thatJohnson took offense.
Kellye (24:18):
Yeah, and like what.
Kyler (24:19):
What?
And then Johnson pushedMitchell.
Fight broke out and at somepoint Johnson pulled out his 380
and shot him in the back whenhe dropped to the floor, and he
shot him four more times in theback.
And I believe in ridiculous Inthe court records.
Kellye (24:33):
the autopsy stated something about the trajectories
and there were there were sevencasings found.
Well, I mean, I'm just thewounds themselves.
The trajectories of the woundsprove that he was on the floor
and oh yeah.
Kyler (24:46):
And that's what everything I've read says as
well.
It's crazy he shot him once toknock him down, and four more
times at least.
Kellye (24:53):
And not, and for me this episode, I don't really have a
lot of personal opinion otherthan you know like what the
biggest part of this case andthe interest for me in this case
was.
I was completely and hopelesslyfascinated by Project NOLA and
what they did in this case andthe technology that they use and
have in place currently andwhat that means for law
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enforcement all over the country, not just Louisiana.
It's just astounding.
And just to give a little bitmore in detail information about
Project NOLA, it is a nonprofitorganization that operates the
largest, most cost efficient,successful networked HD crime
camera program in America.
Kyler (25:36):
And Actually on on that for reference, the cameras that
project no la is using, theirresolution is a 32 I'm assuming
frames per second, but I don't.
I don't recall what it saidafter 32, but the pole cameras
that police used to use, thatthe most a lot of cities still
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use is to yeah, so that's,that's a lot.
Kellye (26:03):
Yeah, my goodness.
Kyler (26:05):
It's a 16-fold difference .
Yeah, that's impressive andthat's just in resolution.
The cost efficiency is reallyis absolutely ridiculous, it's
it they have so many more perksand like things that come out of
it not necessarily the A lot ofthe things that their cameras
can do, or things that the polecameras can also do, but they
can do it for considerablycheaper and in better quality
(26:26):
and they're so.
They can be more widespread andhave more coverage because they
are less costly.
Kellye (26:32):
Oh yeah, and they can go via the internet and transmit
video.
Kyler (26:38):
Yeah, real time and that's one of the coolest things
, both the real time and thefact that the pole cameras.
There's no way to to watch thefeed through a, through a mobile
phone, right you can't on theproject.
No la cameras.
You can watch it over over anapp on your phone right, and you
can think is really cool re-broadcast them to local law
enforcement immediately.
Kellye (26:55):
It's all real time, which is really impressive, and
that Um Series that I wastalking about on investigation
discovery is all of those Ibelieve all of those episodes
are based off of.
That's why the series is calledreal-time crime, because the
project no la real-time crimeinformation Center at the
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University of New Orleans iswhere all of this takes place
and it was created in 2009 bycriminologist Brian Lagarde.
And if you want or if you'recurious to know more information
about project no la and theirrole in communities everywhere,
you can go to project no la dotorg and we'll have that link
listed in our show notes andlinks to the other sources Used
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in researching this case andthat this is not the only case
that we are going to talk abouton the on this sin law.
Kyler (27:45):
That Happens to be also a case, haven't, oh Jesus?
That happens to also be a casethat was picked up by or helped
with.
Help, helped with by.
Kellye (27:58):
That the case was solved in part by the help of the
project no la.
Okay, okay, and he's absolutelyright, because there are many
cases that I've come across andresearching others that have had
Project no la influence whenone way or the other, whether it
be license plate recognition orfacial recognition, which is
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another part of what they do.
They also have a really, reallycool Gunshot detection system
and, like I said there's they'vegot all the information on
their website, you guys, tocheck it out.
It's really amazing.
Oh, you're not even gonna givethem a couple of the details,
I'm not.
I'm not because we have anotherepisode that we're gonna use it
so, if they say something, golisten to our other episodes, oh
.
Kyler (28:41):
Trying to hook y'all.
Kellye (28:43):
And I just want to say thank you for listening.
If you like the show, leave usa review on Apple podcast or
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us an email at Sendlaw podcastat gmailcom, which will also be
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See you next week see you nextweek or the week after every two
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weeks.
I'll see you when I see.
Whatever it is, take care outthere, you'll be back, you'll be
back.
Around 1 am on December 15th 2018, police got a call
about shots being fired inalocal nightclub in Jonesville,
louisiana, and, upon arriving atthe scene, found one
23-year-old male dead on thefloor and another 23-year-old
male in the wind.
Come with us into the story ofa senseless crime for a
senseless reason and the use ofan amazing nonprofit program to
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finally find and arrest thesuspect on this episode of Sin
Law.
Hello and welcome to thisepisode of Sin Law.
I'm Kelly and I'm Kyler, andhave I got a story for you today
(00:44):
, although this one didn't takelong to solve, as in terms of
who did it or catching thesuspect, it also wasn't really
hard to figure out why.
But the reason why is soincredibly vain that it's hard
to believe that this crimeoccurred at all.
Are you ready for this?
Probably not.
Kyler (01:04):
Okay, I'm done, but I know you're not.
Kellye (01:08):
Alright.
So on December 15th in 2018,DaJohn LaMichael Mitchell of
Clayton, Louisiana, which isjust north of Faraday, along
with some of his friends, theydecided to go to a Christmas
party at the Sugar Shack inJonesville.
Sugar Shack.
And it's spelledS-U-G-A-S-H-A-K.
Kyler (01:29):
I know you're just trying to pronounce it too hard.
Kellye (01:31):
I am, because I'm .
Kyler (01:32):
It's just a Sugar Shack.
Kellye (01:33):
I enunciate.
So they were going to thisparty and this party was
reported to have it had beenadvertised as having an awesome
DJ as well as a well-knownrapper from the area, and that
made everybody that much moreexcited for this event.
It was also put out on socialmedia that there were gonna be
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drinks and it was just gonna bean all-around good party.
What'd you say?
Kyler (01:59):
Nothing, I was just singing the song wrong.
Kellye (02:02):
Not unusual.
DaJohn and and some of hisfriends went ahead and cruised
over to the Sugar Shack that wasin Jonesville to attend.
Thank you, I'm doing my best toattend this party and,
according to friends ofwitnesses, as soon as DaJohn got
there, I could have done betterin enunciating that DaJohn,
(02:24):
it's D-A-Apostrophe John.
Oh, yeah, okay, so I'm havingto de-juh, de-juh.
Kyler (02:30):
Yeah, I know, I thought you were doing a D-E and just
pronouncing it de-uh, like a lotof the white people's do.
Kellye (02:37):
Well, I'm the whitest of white people.
I know that's why I thought thatOkay so according to friends of
witnesses, as soon as Dejon goton the scene, he started
enjoying himself as one would.
He was drinking, listening tomusic.
Some even say that he wasactually in the DJ booth playing
the music the usual and beforelong people started getting more
tipsy and starting starteddancing and, you know, getting
(03:00):
into it.
Now this party, like Imentioned earlier, was going to
have a rapper there and thisrapper was known by the name
Youngin Gunnen.
His real name was JordanJohnson and he had hyped up this
event on his social media Ibelieve it was like Instagram
and Facebook and had done a lotof videos like John Swills,
(03:20):
gonna Be Hoppin' and all of this.
Kyler (03:22):
We're gonna get it hoppin' up in here.
We're gonna get it hoppin'.
Kellye (03:25):
So Youngin Gunnen and his crew were there and he was
performing throughout the nightand he had actually hired and
paid a promoter to film hisperformance and interactions at
the.
Everybody called it a nightclub, it's literally just a shack,
but at the sugar shack thatevening.
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And so while he was there anddoing his performance and just
hanging out, the filmer wasfollowing them around and it
came to pass that Youngin Gunnenand to John ended up crossing
paths later that evening andbecause Dejon had been drinking
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and was just dancing and feelinghimself, he saw the camera and
he made his way to be able toget over it in front of the
camera and to get into the frame.
He was dancing, like I said,having a good time, and
eventually he kind of bumps intoone of yeah, and it's hard to
(04:29):
tell from the video and thereason.
And the video that I'mmentioning I actually saw on a
segment of a show oninvestigation discovery.
It's called Real Time Crime andit was season one, episode four
, tailgate Terror SlashWrapsheet, and the part of the
episode is the second part, theWrapsheet part that covers this
(04:49):
story, and they have multiplevideos from that night that were
from different cell phones, aswell as the promoter video and
so if you want to check that out, that's a really good resource.
Just see those.
If you want to check out thosevideos, you can see on these
videos that he's obviouslyhaving a good time maybe a
little rambunctious, butotherwise just good fun.
He dances in front of thecamera frame and you can
(05:11):
actually see him bump intosomeone and then just kind of
roll off and keep dancing and asone would do at the club.
Right, yeah, you're just youknow you're dancing, having a
good time, you bump intosomebody.
You know big deal.
You just keep doing what you'redoing.
Kyler (05:24):
Everybody's having a good time.
Exactly, hit me on the shoulder, that's fine, just don't step
on my shoes.
Kellye (05:28):
And that's a big deal for women and for men when they
go to the club.
You don't step on my shoes,don't spill any kind of drink on
my shirt or my dress.
Kyler (05:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna talk about that.
Kellye (05:39):
Well, some people do, especially if they're wearing
silk.
Kyler (05:43):
You know what I mean.
If silk is one thing, white isanother thing, yeah, but like
any other instance, I reallydon't care.
Kellye (05:48):
Okay so, and that's understandable, as most humans
would, that's how we would react.
Just keep on vibing, having agood time.
Kyler (05:56):
Now you do it on purpose.
That's another story.
Kellye (05:58):
Absolutely, absolutely agree.
And you can see again Dejonstill trying to keep himself in
front of the camera, just kindof goofing off, and he bumps
into a person again, but insteadof you know, a normal human
reaction of you know eitherstepping out of the way or just
kind of moving around, moving on, this time the dude who bumped
into comes out swinging.
(06:18):
And what happens when you havea small area with people
drinking and dancing and then apunch gets thrown?
Kyler (06:28):
A lot of punches get thrown A lot of punches get
thrown exactly.
You can turn a rap concert intoa heavy metal concert in just
one snap.
Kellye (06:36):
Yep, go from zero to To mosh pit To mosh pit in.3
seconds, flat right.
So the only difference in thisstory is that someone brings out
a gun in a fist fight.
According to court records,dejon was shot at least five
times, possibly six, most on theback lip, most side of his body
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.
And according what do you mean?
Possibly, because there's I'llexplain this more later but
there's one that they don't knowfor sure.
If it was just shrapnel fromanother bullet, okay, he was
shot at least five times,possibly six, with a 380 pistol,
the opp Mm-hmm.
Yeah, the autopsy noted thatsome of the wounds could have
been caused by fragments fromthe other bullet or another
(07:16):
gunshot itself, but it wasunable to be definitively
determined.
And all shots were noted tohave a trajectory of back to
front, meaning that all fivetimes and possibly six, he was
shot in the back.
Of course.
Once the shot shots rang out,everyone scatters and runs out
of the building.
Oh yeah like turning on a lightswitch and all of the
cockroaches with the light.
(07:37):
There you go.
Kyler (07:38):
Didn't we determine recently that 380 was the same
as a 9?
Kellye (07:42):
millimeter.
They can be used in the sameweapons.
Yes, the friends that had cometo this party with the John soon
realized that he had not exitedthe building with them and I
believe it was his cousin, who Ithink is also on the ID episode
.
He ran back to see where he wasand saw him laying on the floor
quote unconscious and unmoving,I'm quote.
When the police arrive on thescene, they find a group of
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party growers outside huddledaround in different groups, and
then, upon entering the sugarshack, they found Dejon lying
face down with a gunshot woundsand they also found spent
casings of the Winchester brand380 caliber.
But otherwise they didn't findAny other leads, there was just
the, the bullet casings.
(08:26):
Hmm, to make this whole thing alittle bit more heart-wrenching,
dejon's father was a lieutenantwith the Concordia Paris
Sheriff's Office at the time andhe heard about the shooting and
took his Patrol car, runninglights and sirens, to the scene,
only to find out that hisfirstborn son had been shot to
death In the ID episode.
It just hit so hard and yourheart breaks for him, and in
(08:47):
more than one way throughout theepisode.
But I'm not gonna say any moreabout that.
If you want to see it.
Go watch it.
Kyler (08:54):
Real-time crime episode for season one Hmm now said you
know that offhand that's notmany notes folks.
Kellye (09:06):
So now, while talking to an interviewing witnesses, it
was tough going because, despitethe crowd of potential
witnesses, most people did notwant to get involved and Many
more claimed they saw nothing.
Kyler (09:18):
Absolutely.
Somebody just got shot forbumping into somebody.
Kellye (09:20):
You say something about him, you gonna get shot too and
even more so, this was due well,the invest investigators
believed in part to the factthat the rapper and his crew
were purportedly Involved with apart of a Mississippi gang
known as 500 Navy, or 500 Navybabies.
Kyler (09:37):
I'm not sure.
Yes, the 500 Street, god damnit.
Kellye (09:42):
It's, it's weird 500 Navy Babies Street gang.
Is that what we figured out?
Okay?
Kyler (09:49):
I just I keep wanting to say 500 Street or 500 Navy.
Street Street.
Kellye (09:53):
Yeah, so those are wrong anyway, so that they think that
that was part of the reason whynobody wanted to talk.
They were scared of retaliationand eventually, what witnesses
they did get to talk mostlyrequested that their names not
be used and they didn't testifyat the trial.
However, they did Eventuallyget some identifying
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descriptions of the clothes hewas wearing and Apparently he
had on a bright red NASA shirts.
It was like a bright red shirtwith NASA and big letters across
the front and some jogging orwind pants that had two red
stripes down the side of thepants and this person had been
spotted with a gun and the nameof the rapper, young and done in
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Jordan Johnson.
Kyler (10:35):
Apparently, their entire group was dressed in red.
I believe it, especially ifthey were considered to be part
of that game, which would makesense, which is interesting to
me, because I would have assumedthat the 500 Navy baby gang
would have been associated withthe Crips seeing as I'm a baby
right is in is a hue of blueright, it didn't make any sense
(10:56):
to me there.
All I can think is that thereit's a it's to do with the bee,
the Navy baby for the blood.
Kellye (11:04):
Yeah, maybe I'm not sure .
I don't know how gangs work.
I've never been in.
Well, you essentially can't sayRight, right, right, that would
make sense.
Again, I don't know how many ofthat works, but that makes sense
.
So they get the name of himbeing Jordan Johnson, who was
supposed to perform, and that hearrived with his entourage that
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were all dressed in red,according to the news reports,
and the officers quickly get ina restaurant for him as a prime
suspect in the shooting andbegin the search for his
location.
While doing this, the Cata JulaParish Sheriff's Office, which
was the main sheriff's officethat was handling the case, was
talking to another entity thatworks out of Baton Rouge,
(11:48):
louisiana, called Project NOLA.
Project NOLA is a nonprofitorganization that we're going to
talk more in detail about herein just a second, but they
basically use live camera feedsfrom all over to be able to help
locate wanted suspects, amongother things, and the sheriff's
office, using social media andJordan Johnson's own photos
(12:10):
posted, they were able to getthe make and model of the
vehicle they had been in, aswell as a license plate number,
and, using that, the licenseplate readers on the
Natchez-Fidelia Bridge thatcrosses the Mississippi River,
they were able to see that thatcar with those plates had
crossed the Mississippi Riverand about the same time.
They actually got a phone callfrom the Merritt Hospital in
Natchez.
(12:30):
I believe that had anothershooting victim.
Kyler (12:37):
Yeah, it was Crescian Malone, it just says at A
Natchez Hospital had soughttreatment there because he had
also been shot in the in thealtercation and he had told
personnel there that he was shotin Jonesville.
Kellye (12:57):
His wounds were non-life threatening.
I think he just got shot in theleg.
I think it did.
Kyler (13:01):
It doesn't say, but it doesn't say that they were
anything serious.
Kellye (13:04):
I think it was in a different news article, but yeah
, so there was a coupledifferent leads that told the
officers at that point theinformation that they got from
the license plate readers andfrom the witness at the hospital
that Jordan Johnson was likelyin Natchez.
The investigators knew thatthey would not have to involve
Adams County in the search forJordan Johnson and upon
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contacting that police force,they realized that he had
currently, or Jordan Johnson wascurrently, on probation and
parole for a 2014 incident wherehe pled guilty to three counts
of aggravated assault.
Kyler (13:40):
Because he took out a gun and shot into a full vehicle.
Kellye (13:47):
At least three people.
At least three people gotinjured out of that incident.
There were three or more in thevehicle, but three of them were
actually shot, and at thatpoint he was actually only.
Kyler (13:56):
One bullet wounded three people and he was only 18 when
that happened, in 2014.
Kellye (14:04):
I thought it was 14,.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Kyler (14:06):
He said it was sentenced to 10 years.
Five years suspended.
Kellye (14:11):
But he had literally just got out on probation in a
couple months before.
Kyler (14:15):
And 2018 in June, six months before this incident in
December.
Kellye (14:22):
So, knowing that, knowing that he was on probation
, they went ahead and contactedhis parole officer and got
Jordan's cell phone number,which they then used to pinpoint
his location using the GPStracking on his phone, and they
relayed this information back toProject NOLA.
So they actually were able toping his phone and it just so
(14:43):
happened that Project NOLA hadaccess to the cameras covering
the entirety of the complexwhere his location was showing
at the holiday apartments andmatches.
Kyler (14:54):
Now, Sorry, it's okay, it's a way backtrack, but I
thought I'd read this and I justcouldn't remember where it was.
This one says that thishappened while he was performing
.
Kellye (15:11):
I don't know that that's .
Kyler (15:13):
Because on the back it says that it who allegedly
bumped into him and then a fightbroke out, right, but like it
just says, that a rapper who,while performing, shot Mitchell
and then stood over him and shothim some more.
Kellye (15:24):
Yeah.
Kyler (15:26):
Maybe, it just means that during his yeah, during his
stay there at the venue while hewas performing Right.
Yeah, I think that's more of ageneralized.
That's it.
I remember reading it the otherday and it just struck me as
damn no.
In the middle of a song he justpulls out a gun.
Kellye (15:40):
No, and you can see on the video that it wasn't a quote
unquote performance thepromoter or filming the guy who
was filming everything.
You could tell by the situationin the videos that he wasn't on
stage or it wasn't like a shotof him doing rapping.
I don't even think I saw a micor anything on those videos.
Kyler (15:59):
I could be wrong, but it's a sugar shack and it's only
so big, exactly, you don'treally need a stage or a mic or
a.
Kellye (16:05):
Well, I mean at least like a circle around them or
something you would think.
I don't know how these thingswork.
Kyler (16:11):
If there's going to be a circle, then the people rapping
are still in the circle, becauseit is a back and forth Look
look, the only thing I knowabout rapping underground is
like eight miles, so don't Justdon't, don't be judgey.
Kellye (16:24):
So when Project NOLA monitored the live streams which
is another part of what theycan do here they happened upon
the vehicle that matched thedescription and it came into the
frame and they watched aspeople exited the car and all of
this was live, and they watchedthem as they went into an
apartment.
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So they knew from the videothat they were watching, they
could see the vehicle, theycould see them exit and they
knew exactly which apartmentthey went to.
And they relayed thisinformation back to Adams County
and Cato Hula Parish andConcordia.
Kyler (16:56):
Parish.
Kellye (16:57):
Adams County is the county right across the bridge
in Mississippi.
Kyler (17:02):
Okay, I just know that there was the PSO, I'm not sure
which.
Kellye (17:07):
Well, at this point, they had multiple agencies.
They had Adams County, they hadConcordia Parish, they had Cato
Hula Parish, because theyeverything, the Pee just stand
for fucking Parish.
Kyler (17:14):
Yes God damn it, yeah.
So I thought that was gonna besome specific.
Kellye (17:20):
No, Damn them.
Well, after they figured outwhich apartment that he was in,
or what the suspected allegedapartment, they then focused
their attention on watching whocame and went out of this place,
and after watching for a while,they were actually to visually
confirm that Jordan Johnson wasindeed one of the people in this
apartment.
So then things upgrade to warpspeed.
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Everybody's moving, everybody'sgetting everything mobilized.
They get the special task forceteam, they get Adams County
SWAT, they get ready to roll onthis location and, as they're on
their way, the sergeant If youknow anything about cops, when
they're ready, they're ready.
Kyler (17:54):
Right, they may take a little while to get ready, but
when they're ready, they ain'tno stopping them.
Kellye (17:58):
And as they're on their way, the sergeant of the SWAT
team is watching the feed liveon his phone outside of this
apartment building.
Kyler (18:06):
That's fancy.
Kellye (18:06):
And that is all thanks to Project NOLA.
Project NOLA is the one who hasaccess and they can straight
send it to the police forcetheir phone, so they can
actually watch the live feed asthey're on their way to go do
this arrest.
Kyler (18:21):
Well, is it that they send it to them, or is it that
the police force has rented outor has bought these cameras, or
the use of these cameras forhowever long, and that they're
able to use it because they haveit?
Kellye (18:33):
That I can't answer for sure.
But what I know about theProject NOLA itself is I know
that for public and privacy theyonly keep recordings for so
long and they only allow policeforces to use them once they
request it Right, right, right.
Kyler (18:49):
So police may be able to buy their cameras for their own
purpose For their monitoring.
Yes, For their own personal use, but only specific cameras.
Kellye (18:58):
Only specific cameras at times, and if Project NOLA has
access to all of them, that'sexactly correct.
Kyler (19:01):
Okay, got it.
Kellye (19:02):
Because they don't want the public's rights and friends
drawn but at the same time themonitoring system is always
there if they need it.
Yes, absolutely.
They're trying to watch andmake sure that there aren't any
children around, because this isan apartment complex, so
they're trying to pay attentionto the surrounding areas and
they actually notice.
As they're on their way, theysee Jordan Johnson and a male
(19:26):
accomplice coming out of theapartment and getting into the
car.
However, he doesn't make it.
However, thomas Bays, thomasBays.
However, he doesn't even makeit off of the same street that
the apartment's on before theyarrive.
Kyler (19:41):
And that's the benefit or the drawback of having live
camera for you.
That's exactly right.
Kellye (19:47):
And I mean, there wouldn't have been much they
could do about it otherwise.
But if you had got off thestreet they would have been able
to at least see which directionhe went.
But that didn't matter, becausethey got there, they arrested
him and took him into custodywithout incidents, and what
you're talking about.
Kyler (20:01):
Well, I mean Honestly, I mean like, granted, what's he
gonna do?
But still there's enough ofthem that'll try just about
anything.
So it's just good for thepolice force, Absolutely.
It's so much safer for thecommunity and everybody.
Kellye (20:13):
yeah, and it's nice when that happens.
It's not always the case, butit is nice just for the safety
of our officers and for thesafety of the people involved.
Kyler (20:21):
He may be a murderer but Absolutely, with the safe I mean
screw him, and it's far saferfor the community as a whole.
Absolutely, it's just.
I was gratified to hear that.
Kellye (20:36):
No incidents or resistance.
Kyler (20:37):
A suspected or alleged gang member and known, Known
violent, known to have a temper,didn't have any delusions, not
delusions of fighting it outwith the police and either
winning or dying Right.
So they put how many times doyou win?
Kellye (20:59):
Right?
Well, because you can.
Only, there's only the twooptions to be the winner.
Kyler (21:04):
Yeah, but how many times have you heard about them?
Well, I mean, you wouldn't hearabout them anyways.
They would stress the hell outof that, probably.
Kellye (21:10):
Anyway.
So they got him into custody noincident, no resistance, and
that was on December 15th at1240.
So from the time they got thecall to the time he was arrested
, it was about 10 hours becausehe was arrested at 1240 on
December 15th.
So he was taken to the CatoHula Parish Jail where he was
booked on one count of seconddegree murder in a felon in
possession of a firearm and hewas held without bond until his
(21:32):
trial.
From the time of his arrest,jordan Johnson refused to talk
and insisted he was innocentthroughout his trial, but he was
eventually found guilty on bothsecond degree murder and
possession of a firearm.
In 2021.
He was sentenced to life plus20 years for the firearm charge.
Kyler (21:48):
Incidentally, when he was , the jury made its verdict on
December 16th of 2021, so just aday later, three years later.
Kellye (22:00):
Three years in a day, yeah, and at this point in time
I know he's still incarceratedand going through his appeal
process and has some court datescheduled for that pending this
year.
But as it stands he is still injail and will be pending an
appellate win at some point inthe future, but there's no way
of knowing for sure which waythat'll go, so unless he's got
(22:22):
some kind of substantialevidence, otherwise, I'm pretty
sure most of the time with anykind of appeal they stick with
what the jury decides, becausethat's what they're for.
Kyler (22:30):
So yeah, yeah, unless Project Innocence comes in and
starts hoping, or something.
I highly highly doubt that one,I do as well.
But you know they've taken onsome things that a lot of people
have highly, highly doubted.
Kellye (22:43):
I mean, you never know, and they'd kick the ass and all
people are found, you know, butI mean, he's already been found
guilty, so we don't even need tosay that.
And on a more serious note, Ijust want to take a moment to
remember the victim here, asthey so often get lost in these
retelling of what is reallytheir stories.
And according to an articlewritten by the Cinema Hallick,
who wrote an article just afterthe release of the investigation
(23:07):
discovery show I mentioned,dejan was described as
kindhearted and down to earthwho loved enjoying life and
going out with his friends.
He was going to be quitehelpful and had no trouble
making friends and had big plansfor his future, I think.
In the episode his father saidhe wanted to one day play in the
NBA, but according to a coupledifferent places, football was
(23:28):
his passion and in high schoolhe received all district in both
football and basketball and healso ran track.
Kyler (23:34):
Yeah.
Kellye (23:35):
Yeah, he also left behind a son, aiden, who was
four at the time His daddy wastaken from him, an entire family
and multitudinous friends thatlove him and miss him dearly.
He was only 23 years old at thetime of his senseless murder.
That should have never, neverhappened, not over something as
frivolous as bumping intosomeone or even to shump Like
(23:58):
are you kidding?
Kyler (23:59):
This article said that it may not have even been Johnson
that actually bumped into him.
Kellye (24:06):
It was a member of his crew or whatever that bumped
into it, something so ridiculous.
Kyler (24:13):
To John who was dancing, allegedly bumped into Johnson or
a member of his hunderage, thatJohnson took offense.
Kellye (24:18):
Yeah, and like what.
Kyler (24:19):
What?
And then Johnson pushedMitchell.
Fight broke out and at somepoint Johnson pulled out his 380
and shot him in the back whenhe dropped to the floor, and he
shot him four more times in theback.
And I believe in ridiculous Inthe court records.
Kellye (24:33):
the autopsy stated something about the trajectories
and there were there were sevencasings found.
Well, I mean, I'm just thewounds themselves.
The trajectories of the woundsprove that he was on the floor
and oh yeah.
Kyler (24:46):
And that's what everything I've read says as
well.
It's crazy he shot him once toknock him down, and four more
times at least.
Kellye (24:53):
And not, and for me this episode, I don't really have a
lot of personal opinion otherthan you know like what the
biggest part of this case andthe interest for me in this case
was.
I was completely and hopelesslyfascinated by Project NOLA and
what they did in this case andthe technology that they use and
have in place currently andwhat that means for law
(25:15):
enforcement all over the country, not just Louisiana.
It's just astounding.
And just to give a little bitmore in detail information about
Project NOLA, it is a nonprofitorganization that operates the
largest, most cost efficient,successful networked HD crime
camera program in America.
Kyler (25:36):
And Actually on on that for reference, the cameras that
project no la is using, theirresolution is a 32 I'm assuming
frames per second, but I don't.
I don't recall what it saidafter 32, but the pole cameras
that police used to use, thatthe most a lot of cities still
(25:58):
use is to yeah, so that's,that's a lot.
Kellye (26:03):
Yeah, my goodness.
Kyler (26:05):
It's a 16-fold difference .
Yeah, that's impressive andthat's just in resolution.
The cost efficiency is reallyis absolutely ridiculous, it's
it they have so many more perksand like things that come out of
it not necessarily the A lot ofthe things that their cameras
can do, or things that the polecameras can also do, but they
can do it for considerablycheaper and in better quality
(26:26):
and they're so.
They can be more widespread andhave more coverage because they
are less costly.
Kellye (26:32):
Oh yeah, and they can go via the internet and transmit
video.
Kyler (26:38):
Yeah, real time and that's one of the coolest things
, both the real time and thefact that the pole cameras.
There's no way to to watch thefeed through a, through a mobile
phone, right you can't on theproject.
No la cameras.
You can watch it over over anapp on your phone right, and you
can think is really cool re-broadcast them to local law
enforcement immediately.
Kellye (26:55):
It's all real time, which is really impressive, and
that Um Series that I wastalking about on investigation
discovery is all of those Ibelieve all of those episodes
are based off of.
That's why the series is calledreal-time crime, because the
project no la real-time crimeinformation Center at the
(27:15):
University of New Orleans iswhere all of this takes place
and it was created in 2009 bycriminologist Brian Lagarde.
And if you want or if you'recurious to know more information
about project no la and theirrole in communities everywhere,
you can go to project no la dotorg and we'll have that link
listed in our show notes andlinks to the other sources Used
(27:37):
in researching this case andthat this is not the only case
that we are going to talk abouton the on this sin law.
Kyler (27:45):
That Happens to be also a case, haven't, oh Jesus?
That happens to also be a casethat was picked up by or helped
with.
Help, helped with by.
Kellye (27:58):
That the case was solved in part by the help of the
project no la.
Okay, okay, and he's absolutelyright, because there are many
cases that I've come across andresearching others that have had
Project no la influence whenone way or the other, whether it
be license plate recognition orfacial recognition, which is
(28:20):
another part of what they do.
They also have a really, reallycool Gunshot detection system
and, like I said there's they'vegot all the information on
their website, you guys, tocheck it out.
It's really amazing.
Oh, you're not even gonna givethem a couple of the details,
I'm not.
I'm not because we have anotherepisode that we're gonna use it
so, if they say something, golisten to our other episodes, oh
.
Kyler (28:41):
Trying to hook y'all.
Kellye (28:43):
And I just want to say thank you for listening.
If you like the show, leave usa review on Apple podcast or
whichever Pogform you'relistening on, and if you have
any questions or just want tolet us know what you think, send
us an email at Sendlaw podcastat gmailcom, which will also be
listed in the show notes below.
See you next week see you nextweek or the week after every two
(29:04):
weeks.
I'll see you when I see.
Whatever it is, take care outthere, you'll be back, you'll be
back.
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