Jeffrey Johnson, 50, was shot on August 28, 2016, in Las Vegas after leaving a bar with his wife and a friend. The trio rode to the friend’s house; Johnson and his wife followed the friend on a motorcycle. At the corner of Imperial Avenue and Lamont Street they saw a man in the friend’s backyard. The man fled when confronted. Johnson, wanting a better look, told his wife to get off the motorcycle and rode toward the fleeing man. Without any exchange of words the man turned and shot Johnson at least twice in the head while Johnson was still wearing his helmet.

Johnson was transported to a hospital with critical injuries and was taken off life support on September 10. Police linked the shooting to 25-year-old Alonso Perez; a witness said she and Perez had smoked methamphetamine shortly before she saw him shoot a man on a motorcycle, and Perez allegedly told her he did it because he felt like everyone was out to get him. Ballistics tied the weapon to two other August 2016 homicides, of 31-year-old Mohammed Robinson and 37-year-old Candelario Duran.

Perez was initially arrested in connection with Robinson’s death, escaped from a North Las Vegas police interview room by breaking his handcuffs and was at large four days before recapture. Following recapture, he was charged with Johnson’s murder. If anyone knew Jeffrey Johnson or witnessed the events that night, please come forward with information.