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Her apparent motive was her parents' prohibiting her from dating a 19-year-old drug dealer named Bruno Santos. [2] At approximately 6:20 am on September 2, 2003, Johnson took the murder weapon, a .264-caliber Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle from the guest house.
Tia Hernlen was asleep when David Edward Johnson allegedly broke into her family’s home and killed her parents. She woke up after hearing a commotion in the house. Tia called 911 and calmly explained the situation to the dispatcher, giving crucial information about the scene and her whereabouts.
On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution.
In 1906, the lynching of a young black man named Ed Johnson was a public spectacle in the heart of this Smoky Mountain city. Just before he was hanged, he said to the crowd of white men, women...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Lost to Chattanooga history for 112 years, a photograph of Ed Johnson was finally uncovered on the anniversary of his lynching.
Unjust Death. On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, was mob-lynched from the second span of the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga. After a trial devoid of incriminating facts and with a clearly biased jury, Johnson was sentenced to death for the rape of a white woman. When the US Supreme Court granted a stay of his execution, a mob stormed the jail.
Even today, too many people have never heard what happened to Ed Johnson and why his death became a catalyst for a major step forward in the national criminal justice system. That is being remedied. A play was written in 2010 about the lynching, Dead Innocent: The Ed Johnson Story.