On the morning of July 15, 2023, in Tyler, Texas, 38-year-old Jaraine Tyrone Johnson was fatally shot at his residence on McKenzie Drive. The shooting occurred after Johnson’s brother, 31-year-old Lee Autrey Jodeci Morgan, arrived about 7:00 a.m. seeking help locating his truck. Before leaving with Morgan, Johnson reportedly told his fiancée that if he wasn’t back in ten minutes, Jody had shot him. Roughly ten minutes later the brothers returned and Johnson’s fiancée heard what she believed were five shots from the backyard. Johnson was found unresponsive and bleeding; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, back, and face.

Investigators say Morgan called his father to confess and said he had been hearing voices that told him to shoot his brother. His father urged him to get help and surrender; Morgan was taken into custody at the Andrews Center in Tyler without incident. Authorities recovered a 9mm handgun in Morgan’s vehicle. Morgan was charged with first-degree murder, booked into the Smith County Jail on $1 million bond, and later indicted by a grand jury. Does anyone have information about Johnson, his routine, or the events that morning that could help clarify what happened?