Thursday, October 26, 2017

Nursing home shooter caught.

Update: Johnson is being held without bond and will have an initial appearance this morning in Ridgeland Municipal Court. 

The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement and picture.


The Ridgeland Police Department responded to Highland Homes (assisted living and long term rehabilitation home) located at 638 Highland Colony Parkway approximately 6:20 am on Thursday, October 26, 2017, on a report of a subject being shot at this location. Upon officers’ arrival, they located the victim who was identified as a 32 year of age female. This victim is an employee of the care facility and was completing her overnight shift. Additionally, the responding officers located a second victim who had also sustained multiple gunshot wounds. This second victim, 35 year of age male, was sitting in his vehicle in the parking lot of the facility. The male victim was later determined to be the present boyfriend of the female victim. Both sustained multiple gunshot wounds and were transported to a local hospital for treatment and the extent of the injuries is unknown as they are undergoing surgery.

Hi, my name is Sam.
Investigators on the scene were able to obtain information from the two victims prior to being transported to aid in the investigation. It was discovered a subject named Sam had shot the two victims and fled the scene in a white vehicle. Other staff members reported to the responding officers that the female victim heard an argument outside the south doors of the facility and upon investigating, she saw her current boyfriend (male victim) and her ex-boyfriend in a confrontation in the parking lot of the facility. As the female victim was exiting the facility to confront the people outside, gunshots were fired. The female victim retreated back inside and secured the doors to the facility. The male victim ran on foot attempting to get back to his vehicle. The shooting suspect fled in a white vehicle.

Investigators were able to obtain from information supplied by the victims the identity of the shooting suspect as Sam Kenta Johnson, 39 years of age from Jackson. Preliminary information received in the investigation provided additional evidentiary value to allow investigators to secure an arrest warrant for Johnson charging him with two counts of Aggravated Assault.

Investigators reached out to other law enforcement agencies across the state and were able to locate Johnson as he traveled in I-55 near Grenada, MS shortly after 10:30 am where he was taken into custody without incident. Johnson was transported to Grenada Police Department where investigators with Ridgeland Police Department will pick him up and transport back to Ridgeland PD. Johnson will be processed and held at Madison County Detention Center pending an initial appearance before a municipal court judge. No Bond has been set at this time.

No known motive has been revealed for the shooting and the history between Johnson and the female victim is unknown at this time as investigators are still gathering additional information. Anyone with information is requested to contact the Ridgeland Police Department at 601-856-2121

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

He was headed to Memphis, a certified sanctuary city.

Anonymous said...

@1:27 - He didn't need to head for Memphis. Jackson is a sanctuary city.

Louis LeFleur said...

I don't "get" these two references to sanctuary cities, certified or not. Santuary cities are STRICTLY an imigration thing. I guess what you're trying to say without sounding too racist is that they are majority African American with high crime rates and low prosecution rates. If that's the case, why don't you just say it instead of hiding behind misuse of a term?

Anonymous said...

People get shot in Ridgeland and you people come on here to talk bad about Jackson. Typical.

Anonymous said...

@3:19

" the identity of the shooting suspect as Sam Kenta Johnson, 39 years of age from Jackson."

The shooter is a Jackson thug that traveled to Ridgeland to do his cowardly deed. Had the girlfriend worked in Jackson (of any other city) that is where he would have gone to shoot her and her current boyfriend. Keep your thugs in Jackson and leave all of us decent hard working folks in Ridgeland alone.

Bulk Buyin said...

Ridgeland's spiral downward started with the announcement of Costco.

Anonymous said...

3:15, please keep up with current events. Jackson has been deemed a sanctuary city for criminals. Doesn't matter if they are illegals or home grown. Thugs, criminals, thieves, and the such.

Anonymous said...

Ridgeland is not spiraling downward, idiot at 3:56. Jackson is not the issue either. Domestic violence, people. Can happen anywhere. Probably in some of your own houses!
I pray that the two victims recover and am thankful that the shooter was apprehended. Great work by law enforcement.

Anonymous said...

Access to these places is wide open, regardless of key-systems. All the friend-boys know the codes. That's how they get in to steal shit from the residents.

Anonymous said...

@4:45. If you believe Ridgeland is not spiraling downward, it's safe to assume you haven't been east of the interstate in a while. The majority of the residents in the city of Ridgeland are renters. Ridgeland is spiraling downward. Your home values are dropping, regardless of which side of the interstate you live on. Get over it.

Anonymous said...

@7:42

Undoubtedly you don't live in or own property in Ridgeland. I live in and own my house and own a rental as well, both east of I-55. I had them appraised for refinancing a little over 2 years ago and again just a few months ago. The appraisal 2 years ago was up over 30% from when I built them in the mid 90's. The most recent appraisal was up 23% from the one 2 years ago. Downward spiral? I don't think so.

Meanwhile a house in NE Jackson that I sold for $89K in 1995 is now on the market for $56.2K and that is reduction $4K from when it was listed over a year ago. I have a friend who bought a house off of Old Canton Road in 1982 for ~$60K. He has had it on the market for over a year and has reduced the price to $49K recently. He has had three contracts but none of them were able to qualify. Now, tell me about where home values are dropping.

Anonymous said...

You all are forgetting the point that 2 people were shot today and it could have been worse. It doesn't matter what city or what your home value is! We need to stop pointing fingers and try to get together for a solution!

Anonymous said...

10:32...Thank you for hosting this round-table discussion, and for bringing snacks for the group. Also, thank you for asking me to join the group as we consider ways to "get together for a solution" to the problem of angry men who shoot their ex-friend-girls and their current squeeze. Speaking for the group, can I ask that you start the discussion with your personal recommendation for moving forward? I mean, it WAS your idea to 'get together for a solution'...Were there any more of the chocolate chip cookies?

As long as there has been poontang withheld, on this planet, there has been the incidence of violent reprisal.

Anonymous said...

We live in a country where a woman who tries to move on from an old relationship to a new one gets shot by her ex, and all anyone cares to talk about is race.

Keep shrugging your shoulders at domestic violence as if it's normal, and it will keep on being normal.


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