On the morning of January 13, 2017, 34-year-old Julii Johnson was shot multiple times outside her boyfriend’s condominium in Warren, Michigan, as she prepared to leave for work. She was found bleeding by her car and died later at a hospital from seven gunshot wounds to the torso and head. Johnson was a Black woman and a mother to a teenage daughter.

Investigators moved from initially scrutinizing the boyfriend, Jim Lattner, to charging this as an alleged murder-for-hire motivated by jealousy. Police charged three people: Marcie Griffin, 46, identified as Lattner’s ex-girlfriend; George Rider, 58; and Eric Gibson, 24. Authorities say Griffin enlisted Rider, who hired Gibson to carry out the shooting. A work glove and a 9mm handgun recovered near the scene produced DNA matches to Gibson, gym surveillance captured a vehicle believed to be Rider’s and a man identified as Gibson, and cell records and text messages tied Rider and Griffin to the vicinity and communications about the plan.

All three were arrested in February 2017 and tried in Macomb County Circuit Court; a jury found Griffin, Rider, and Gibson guilty of first-degree murder in June 2019, and Gibson was also convicted on a weapons charge. Does anyone have information about Julii’s life in Warren or the days leading up to January 13, 2017?