Deante Johnson was a 16-year-old freshman at Trotwood High School who loved fashion and attracted other kids with his personality. He was visiting a family friend the night he was killed and did not know the man who would take his life.

In the early morning of May 22, 2024, Dayton police responded to a shooting at a home in the 1400 block of Shaftesbury Road. Officers found Deante and 32-year-old Precious Taste dead inside. Investigators say Taste had been in an argument with Nicole Nico Cunigan Jr., 32, the father of her twin daughters. After leaving and returning, Cunigan pushed in a bedroom window and fired through the opening, striking and killing Deante as he slept. Cunigan then entered and fatally shot Taste, who was 14 to 15 weeks pregnant. Both victims died from multiple gunshots; Taste’s twin daughters were in the house but were not physically harmed.

Police identified Cunigan as the main suspect, warned he was armed and dangerous, and recovered a white Chevrolet Malibu hours later in Trotwood; a search for Cunigan followed and he was later taken into custody. If anyone knew Deante, where he spent time, or has information about that morning, please share what is known.