Eric Johnson guilty
Mick sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Eric Johnson, a former Marine corporal, was convicted in a court yesterday for the murder of Sara Mutschlechner in what Fox calls a “road rage” incident. Apparently Miss Mutschlechner was the designated driver of a group of her sorority sisters on New Years Eve when Johnson exchanged words with her and then he killed her;
“As a trained Marine, he knew exactly what he was doing when he shot at the carload of teenagers,” prosecutors argued, according to FOX4.
An affidavit in the case said the shooting happened when men in an SUV made sexual remarks toward Mutschlechner and a female riding with her.
Johnson was arrested later at a Marine Corps facility in Yuma, Az. and then discharged by the Marines. The Marine Corps said Johnson was assigned to the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1. Capt. Justin Smith, a spokesman for the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command in California, said Johnson joined the Marines in August 2013. He said Johnson was an administrative specialist and had never been deployed.
Category: Crime
Yeah because Administrative Specialists are hard Core Marine Killers.
OK so he was a Marine so that’s more KILL KILL KILL than *my* Air Force training but still, you get my point. He was a *thug* first.
Agreed; ‘thug’ first. Probably thought that the victim had somehow ‘disrespected’ him, whatever that’s supposed to mean these days, so he started shooting into a vehicle full of innocent young girls. Just another stupid, asshole thug.
‘He said Johnson was an administrative specialist and had never been deployed’, so for once the defense couldn’t use A Raging Case Of The PTSD as an excuse for this heinous crime.
Eric had better continue to practice that thug ‘tough guy’ face that he’s making in the mug shot posted above; he’s gonna need it where he’s headed. Too bad that capital punishment apparently isn’t an option here.
Wouldn’t have been surprised if he or his attorney had tried.
It is Yuma, after all. Granted, not 29 Stumps, but close.
Oh, and have fun in prison. Make sure you use powdered soap.
“the defense couldn’t use A Raging Case Of The PTSD”
I don’t know about that. I hear that “Crucible” thing the Marines have at the end of boot camp is pretty stressful.
Thug for sure. http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/eric-johnson-sentenced-44-years-for-murder-of-sara-mutschlechner-9719016
Article specifically mentions he was rolling with a bunch of civvy Dindu Nuffins he knew back home.
Affirmative action Marine?
Soon an affirmative action feather spitter…
I must have slept through the “shoot into a carload of teenagers” portion of training. Of course it was damn near 20 years ago and my memory isn’t what it used to be…
In every branch an occasional thug shows up.
Hope they give him a death sentence.
Unfortunately, this case didn’t meet the circumstances to charge him with Capital Murder. Since he’s charged with murder, he gets a chance at parole… he must be proud of killing an innocent girl.
That’s all “according.” Sometimes “life” in Texas is 99 years. Typically one can be expected to parole after completing at least 50% of said sentence. And that’s if you keep your nose clean.
All it would take to make sure this scumbag gets “life” is for a CO to whisper to a trustee that said scumbag is a former cop. I’d give it less than 96 hours and he’d be in the prison morgue.
To hell with this dude.
Literally.
Make him a stand-in target for bayonet training?
EX MARINE fits here. POS shoots into a car full of chicks because they didn’t want to hear sexual comments being hurled at them.
He was never a Marine, he was just in the Marines.
Jackass.
I think that’s an insult to true jackasses everywhere Ex
Shooting into a car full of young girls? May the day he was born he erased from the calendar!
yeah, because only someone in the military would recognize that shooting somebody with their pistol could have serious consequences.
gimme a fekking break
Maybe he was trying to earn his CAR. /s
Pretty much he’s a waste of space. That’s one way of earning respect. Hoping he’s very popular in prison.
What a tremendous loss. For what? Absolutely no valid reason.
/s
And he also did it in Texas, where, as Ron White says, “If you kill somebody, we will kill you back!”
I’d be a more ardent supporter of capital punishment if it was actually carried out in a reasonable timeframe. This 25+ years of appeals bullshit is not a deterrent.
Don’t think of it as a deterrent (it works poorly for that) but as a 100% cure for recidivism. The one absolutely foolproof method society has of removing that threat. That being said, the lengthy decades-long appeals process that seems to hinge on what the meaning of ‘is’ is should be streamlined.
Ditto. I say they get one appeal, which has to be completed within one year of conviction and then they must promptly “pull rope.”
Marine or not, he’s clearly an oxygen-thieving asshole. Dollars to donuts he already was one before he enlisted. I’d be curious to hear what the rest of his shop has to say about him. I’m guessing the most common response is probably along the lines of “Yeah, that guy always was a piece of shit.”
Yep…he used to spaz out in the office to MC Hammer’s “Can’t type this!”
So tired of this. Where is he from? Where is his family at? Any videos with “Dinnt do nuffin” from outraged family members?
There used to be a time and a place for vigilante justice.
Yikes! That might be Sherman, Texas in 1930? That perp was going to prison for life anyway…rape and shooting at a cop…but, I get your point…some fuckers really deserve extrajudicial…
“As a trained Marine, he knew exactly what he was doing when he shot at the carload of teenagers,” prosecutors argued, according to FOX4.
You know you just cannot make this shit up! WTF do civilians – like this guy and especially so called journalists – know about jack shit (which by the way I haven’t seen on TAH for some time) when it comes to almost anything military. Sure, the Marines have a claim to fame that ALL Marines are riflemen first. Yeah right.
This shitbag was a friggin’ hated man; a friggin’ clerk/jerk. I hated fuqing clerks and jerks. They ALWAYS had an excuse for their screwing up your paperwork or records.
The prosecutor did exactly what he was supposed to do. Ensure that he jury knew this asshole was well aware of the consequences of pointing a weapon at someone and firing it.
Shit ANYONE should know that. If it helped convict the son of a bitch I’m all for it.
Its not like saying ” This guy could type” would be the effective thing to say.
Not to mention, a desk jockey with no pistol qual.
Probably just eked out a Marksman qual with the rifle, even with an optic. I’d be interested to see the training records out of his SRB.
typical black thug ghetto rapist animal and they where white girls -prove a point .
Hot off the press. The shitbag only got a 44 year sentence.
Yep…but that will be 44 years of ass worship administered by the Aryan Brotherhood, or so I hope
The AB are nothing more than shitbags who want their piece of drug action in the walls.
If their isn’t any money in it they aren’t interested.
If they were such vengeful bad-asses there would be a hell of a lot more killings of inter-racial murderers.
They mostly kill or assault other whites who they get pissed at.
They can be crafty as shit, but its all about $$$$$$$$$ not being saviors of ” The Race”
Oh there, you had to completely ruin my prison rape fantasy..ok, how about Mexican mafia? They can have fun with him as a human piñata after all the fun is done
Do the victim’s family know that you can get a guy in prison whacked for a pack of cigarettes
Further proof that cigarettes are bad for your health.