Cassie Johnson was a 28-year-old Charleston, West Virginia, police officer who was shot on December 1, 2020, while responding to a parking complaint on Garrison Avenue. The complaint involved a man later identified as Joshua Marcellus Phillips, who had parked an SUV on a resident’s property. When Johnson confronted Phillips an exchange of gunfire occurred; she was struck once in the neck and Phillips suffered two gunshot wounds to his torso.

Both were taken to hospital. Johnson remained on life support for two days so her organs could be donated and died on December 3, 2020. Phillips was taken into custody after the shooting; he was charged with first-degree murder and later tried on related charges. The case drew attention statewide and prompted the passage of the Patrol Officer Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act, which increases penalties for intentionally killing a first responder.

Did anyone in the Charleston area see or hear about the confrontation on Garrison Avenue that afternoon?