Timothy Johnson, fugitive accused of murder in New Hampshire, caught in Massachusetts, officials say
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Timothy Johnson, 38, is charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Jean Lascelle in Manchester, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of New Hampshire Attorney General s office.
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A 38-year-old man accused of a fatal shooting in New Hampshire has been caught in Massachusetts, authorities said Wednesday.
Timothy Johnson, who is facing a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the Feb. 13 death of Jean Lascelle in Manchester, New Hampshire, was arrested at 12:39 p.m. Wednesday in Framingham, according to the office of New Hampshire Deputy Attorney General Jane E. Young.
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A man has been charged with home invasion after he and his brother attempted to break into a Sandy Springs home, police said. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
SANDY SPRINGS, GA A man has been charged and his brother has died after the two attempted to break into a Sandy Springs apartment.
On Dec. 14, 2020, Sandy Springs Police responded to an apartment off Roswell Road regarding a home invasion that had just occurred. Once officers arrived, they found a man who had been severely beaten. He took officers to his apartment where one of the suspects had accidentally shot himself while pistol-whipping the other man, police said.
An inmates stands in a cell inside one of Massachusetts county jails. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many states including Massachusetts took steps to reduce the number of people incarcerated in an effort to stem the spread. The result was a double-digit drop in the number of people incarcerated by June, but in the fall, that population started to go up again.
Those steps included efforts to grant release to some prisoners, especially those who had not been convicted, and to make fewer arrests on charges that could result in incarceration.
A report from the Vera Institute of Justice looked at incarceration numbers throughout the country from the end of 2019 to September 2020. In Massachusetts, it found county jail and state prison populations dropped 23% between the end of 2019 and September 2020 from 17,501 to 13,405 people.