Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Marcus Johnson hit ex-boyfriend, Carlos D Collins, 30 times in his apartment.
It was an emotional day for Carlos Collins’ family in Jackson Municipal Court.
They had to sit and face the person accused of gruesomely shooting and killing their loved one. They admit that this is only the first step in getting justice for Carlos.
Carlos Collins, 25, is now the 36th person in 2024 to be killed in the capital city. Pursuing Johnson in a car chase across state lines, police arrested the 33-year-old on April 10 in Monroe, La., on charges of murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling in connection to Collins’s killing, Detective Tommie Brown tells PEOPLE.
The two had dated for about a year, ending in late 2023, Hudson says.
In the months that followed their breakup, she says Collins found air tags and trackers on his car and that of a friend’s, as well as a ring camera he believed his ex had installed at a vacant apartment nearby to watch him. Once, Hudson says, her brother told her he’d awoken to Johnson watching him sleep.
“My brother was a light in this dark world. Even now that he’s gone, he’s still overpowering the darkness that Marcus bestowed upon him. My brother will live on,” his sister said.
Marcus Johnson, a former Jackson police officer, is accused of murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling that left the 25-year-old nurse dead at the Tapestry Northridge Apartments on Parkway Drive.