Jessie James Johnson, 68, was shot and killed on the evening of May 12, 2020, in a Birmingham neighborhood after attempting to intervene in a family domestic dispute. Responding officers found him lying unresponsive in the road with an apparent gunshot wound; Birmingham Fire and Rescue rendered aid but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators treated the incident as domestic in nature. Authorities arrested Johnson’s 21-year-old grandson Antwon Jones in connection with the killing and charged him with murder; Jones was held in the Jefferson County Jail on $100,000 bond.

What additional details about that night or the people involved might help explain how a family argument escalated to this deadly outcome?