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Court Papers Portray Card Game Gone Awry Before Fatal Shooting

By Jeff Neumeyer
June 18, 2010 Updated Dec 22, 2009 at 4:25 PM EST FORT WAYNE, IN (Indiana's NewsCenter) --- A friendly card game turns deadly, when a Fort Wayne man allegedly turns an assault rifle on his brother. Indiana's NewsCenter reporter Jeff Neumeyer reviewed court papers that describe a chaotic scene before police say Brandon Johnson sought vengeance against his blood relative. Investigators still don't know the true motive, but a probable cause affidavit includes witness accounts of a party December 16th that was suddenly interrupted by a sibling dispute and a barrage of gunshots. 22-year old Brandon Johnson is now jailed without bond, preliminarily charged with murder and attempted murder, criminal confinement and a handgun violation. Last Wednesday, at the Three Fountains apartment complex on Wayne Trace Avenue, 27-year old Leroy Johnson was cut down in a hail of bullets. Brandon Johnson was quickly tied to the shooting, and two days later, he surrendered to police after a six-hour standoff at Blackhawk Apartments on the northeast side of the city. Court papers indicate that Leroy Johnson was hosting a card party, when Brandon Johnson showed up. Witnesses told police he was very "casual", that he smoked a cigarette as the card game played out. But at some point, witnesses say he pulled a “mini-AK 47” assault rifle from his pants, waved it around, pronouncing, “It wasn't about them”, before pointing the weapon at his brother Leroy. The narrative goes on to say Brandon Johnson told Leroy, “You know what this is about”, before Leroy Johnson and another man tried to run out the back. Leroy Johnson was shot to death and Clifton Davis was struck by six shots as he crawled over Leroy Johnson’s body into a bathroom to try and hide. One of the people at the party was a woman who had a protective order against Brandon Johnson. Whether that figured into last week's violence in any way, is not clear.
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