WILTON MANORS, Fla. – Shannon Johnson stated she is lacking her beloved 61-year-old father, Alton Johnson, a former school soccer participant who had labored as a forklift operator on a delivery dock in Fort Lauderdale.
She stated his two sons, Jarvis and Jarred Johnson, and his 3 grandchildren are lacking him extraordinarily. It’s a grief that they have got been feeling since they realized cops discovered him useless on July 12.
Alton Johnson died alongside North Andrews Avenue. His explanation for dying remained a thriller till Sept. 5, only a few days after the circle of relatives would have celebrated his 62nd birthday.
The Broward County Office of Medical Examiner and Trauma Services reported a driver had struck him. Detectives opened a prison case and began to search for a hit-and-run driver.
“I don’t have any closure on what happened to him and it is because someone was a coward and left the scene,” Shannon Johnson stated.
Johnson’s grieving daughter additionally had a query for the driver who did it: “How would you feel if someone struck your parent and left them for dead, didn’t stop to check on them or anything? How would you feel?”
The driver would possibly not have identified Johnson’s heart title was once Gregory, such a lot of of his family members knew him as “Greg.”
Aside from his grandkids, his daughter, and his two sons, he additionally had circle of relatives in Georgia, Jacksonville, and California and buddies in South Florida and North Carolina who are all grieving his dying.
Johnson was once born in Macon, Georgia, and grew up in Jacksonville the place he performed soccer for Jean Ribault High School. He was once so proficient that he won a scholarship to play at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. He was once dwelling in Broward County when he died.
His grieving circle of relatives requested the general public to lend a hand Wilton Manors cops and Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies to seek out the hit-and-run driver. They had been additionally thankful for the kindness of 2 strangers.
“I just want to thank you so much because apparently there are some evil people in this world that do not care about the lives of others, but you guys stopped and helped him,” Shannon Johnson stated including that she would really like to satisfy them in individual however she doesn’t know who they’re.
Detectives have no longer launched any automobile description to the general public but. They had been asking somebody with information in regards to the case to name Detective Michael Wiley at 954-321-4841 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. There is a $5,000 praise for information ensuing in an arrest in the case.
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