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Donald White II (Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office).
A Louisiana man convicted of murder for the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her mother, as well as attempted murder for shooting the woman’s father, will die behind bars after being handed two life sentences last week, officials say.
The Caddo Parish Clerk of Court’s Office confirmed to Law&Crime on Thursday that Donald White II, 32, was sentenced on Sept. 19 by a local judge.
The prison terms were in relation to two counts of second-degree murder that White was found guilty of on Sept. 10 after just one hour of deliberation by jurors. He was also slapped with a 50-year sentence for second-degree attempted murder, to run consecutively with the life sentences, according to the clerk of court’s office.
“He did this — like right here,” 77-year-old John Johnson told jurors about being shot by White during his early morning attack, which was aimed at Johnson’s daughter Jasmine Johnson and her parents on Jan. 14, 2024, according to prosecutors.
“Pow,” John Johnson said, according to The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate newspaper, while holding his hand up on the stand as if he was holding a gun horizontally. “He shot me.”
Jasmine Johnson and Joan Johnson, ages 29 and 70, respectively, were at Jasmine’s home in Shreveport with John Johnson when White — her estranged common-law husband — forced his way into the home and started blasting. The former couple’s three children were also home at the time, but weren’t targeted or injured.
John Johnson told jurors he and his wife were staying with Jasmine Johnson at the time of the shooting and he awoke to a disturbance, according to local CBS affiliate KSLA. The first thing that John said he saw after waking up was Joan Johnson lying near their bathroom door with her head bloodied, the Advocate reports. He next saw White nearby, who locked eyes with him and opened fire.
“Are you a hundred percent sure it was me?” White, who represented himself during his trial, reportedly asked John Johnson.
“I’m a thousand percent,” John Johnson replied.
Throughout the trial, White had to be reprimanded and told of the requirements of representing himself by the judge, who told him at one point, “That’s not how this works.”
Police recorded a statement from Jasmine Johnson after she was hospitalized with injuries that would ultimately prove fatal. She accused White of chasing her in his car earlier in the day after he spotted her at a grocery store. She had two of their three children in her car and said she was 23 weeks pregnant at the time.
According to Jasmine Johnson, White rear-ended her car twice and forced her off the road. He allegedly ran up to her car afterward, grabbed her by the shirt and hair as she was inspecting her vehicle for damage, and then tossed her to the ground repeatedly.
“I drove off quick, because he said he was gonna kill me,” Jasmine Johnson said.