On the evening of November 30, 2022, Christopher J. Johnson, 40, was found with gunshot wounds in the 1800 block of 9th Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia. He was taken to a nearby hospital and later died. An autopsy showed he had been shot twice in the back and once in the leg; prosecutors said a total of 17 shots were fired during the incident.

Authorities identified four suspects from Kanawha County: Malik Hawk, 25, of Charleston; Lawrence Foye, 37, of St. Albans; Demarquis Patterson, 19, of Charleston; and Matthew Daughtery, 24, of Charleston. Hawk, Foye and Patterson were arrested in January 2023 after a coordinated operation by the U.S. Marshals, Hurricane Police, and Putnam and Kanawha County deputies. Daughtery eluded capture for months, prompting a multi-state search and a reward offer, and was eventually arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, in August 2023.

Court documents alleged the four conspired to kill Johnson and suggested a planned robbery as a possible motive. All four pleaded not guilty in federal court in October 2023; later developments in the proceedings continued into 2024. Did anyone in Huntington know Christopher Johnson or see activity around 9th Avenue that night?