My Mom Was Just Murdered
Younger brother in custody, charged with murder
Hey man
Welcome back to The Dream Lounge. It’s been a rough week. No jokes or hyperbole today.
As we were putting my daughter Charlotte to bed (a little late) on Tuesday the 16th, my older sister called. My wife and I just had a bad feeling, it was unusual to call this late. She has young kids too around our daughter’s age.
Sure enough we pick up and learned that my mom Rosemary Johnson was dead.
Immediately we assume natural causes. A heart attack, slip and fall, etc. My mom was old and in poor health, disabled in some ways. None of this would have been surprising or unexpected.
My sister continued though. And very quickly we learned that my mother had been murdered in what was my grandma’s house years ago. My younger brother (by almost 9 years) Devin Johnson had allegedly slit her throat, in addition to other knife wounds.
Our younger sister had gone to visit, concerned about my mom not responding to texts for so long. She walked in to the house to discover our mother co…
