Peyton M. Johnson was 26 when he was killed in Richmond, Virginia, on January 14, 1992. His death was one of a string of violent slayings tied to the Newtowne Gang, a drug trafficking crew implicated in a campaign of murders during the winter of 1992 aimed at rivals and perceived threats to their cocaine trade.

The federal investigation into the killings focused on the gang and its co-founder Corey Johnson. Prosecutors charged Corey Johnson, Richard Tipton, and James H. Roane Jr. with multiple counts, including murders carried out in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise. At trial the evidence tied the defendants to several of the slayings, and a federal jury convicted Corey Johnson of seven counts of murder related to the spree that killed at least ten people in Richmond over 45 days.

Corey Johnson, Tipton, and Roane received death sentences. If anyone knew Peyton or has information about his killing, please come forward with what you remember.