A Pasquotank County jury has found 27-year-old Ty'Chantiana Perkins guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Jahliel Johnson. On November 13, Judge Andrew Womble sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
She will serve that sentence in the custody of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, WNCT reported. Elizabeth City police first responded to Speed Street more than five years earlier.
Officers answered an EMS assistance call there on August 28, 2021. Police arrived at 11:13 a.m. in the 300 block, found Johnson with multiple stab wounds, and took him to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, where he died, WTKR reported.
Johnson was 20 and from Elizabeth City. An obituary lists his dates as July 30, 2002, to August 28, 2021. Police arrested Perkins and charged her with first-degree murder before the case reached a Pasquotank County jury.
