Jeremy Johnson, 32, was found shot to death in his second-floor apartment on East Marshall Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the early hours of October 9, 2024. Norristown Police responded about 4:08 a.m. after a 911 call; officers found the building’s front door open and a man later identified as 41-year-old Saleem Smith standing on the sidewalk. Johnson had a single gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered a 9mm handgun in the building entryway, three fired cartridge casings, two live rounds, a machete and a machete sheath near Johnson’s body. Ring camera footage from the building’s entryway reportedly shows Smith and Johnson entering and exiting the apartment multiple times beginning around 1:30 a.m., and allegedly shows Smith in the hallway holding a firearm at 4:07 a.m., just before the 911 call. Smith was arrested; he told detectives the two had been getting high and that he shot Johnson after Johnson “went to the dark side.”

Smith, who has a criminal history including an aggravated assault conviction and was prohibited from possessing firearms, faces charges that the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office announced as first-degree murder, third-degree murder, possessing an instrument of crime and several firearms violations. He is being held without bail. If anyone in Norristown has information about what happened that night or knew Jeremy, please share what you know with investigators.