A 2016 shooting in Mohave County killed Matthew Johnson.
Johnson was 22.
A Long-Running Investigation
Mohave County authorities investigated the killing for years.
What Arizona Law Says About the Charge
Arizona’s first-degree murder statute includes an intentional-murder provision requiring premeditation, as well as other routes to a first-degree murder charge, according to Arizona Revised Statutes § 13-1105.
A Separate Older Homicide Case
The Mohave Daily News reported that the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations unit sought public help in the 1995 homicide investigation of Jean Andrae Brady, whose body was found in Lake Havasu City. The report described Brady’s case as open at that time; it did not report a resolution. That case involved a different victim and a 1995 Lake Havasu City investigation, distinct from Johnson’s 2016 killing in Mohave County.
