Father, daughter argued about money before he shot her to death in SUV, warrant says
Before Alvie Johnson Jr. shot and killed his daughter, Queenette Johnson, inside a white SUV that wound up crashing onto a private estate, he said they had gotten into an argument over money, an arrest warrant says.
The two were fighting as she drove them to the bank, he told Fort Worth detectives Thursday, and they continued their quarrel into the parking lot. He then got out of his passenger seat and walked around to the back of the vehicle, which was when she tried to lock the doors to keep him away, the warrant says. But he opened the back hatch and jumped inside.
With the 72-year-old father inside the car and the hatch still open, Queenette Johnson, 39, began to drive away.
Their argument persisted as she drove and she eventually told him she was going to call the police, according to the warrant. Alvie Johnson reportedly pulled out a pistol and shot her multiple times, causing the SUV to crash through the fence of an estate in east Fort Worth and into a tree.
When the car came to a rest, he got out, walked to the passenger’s side of the car and saw Queenette Johnson was still breathing, he told detectives.
He shot her once more in the head.
“He shot the victim in her temple to make sure she was dead,” Detective J.W. Galloway wrote in the arrest warrant charging Alvie Johnson with murder.
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Alvie Johnson, of Forest Hill, was arrested on that murder charge following the Thursday afternoon shooting, and on Friday he was in the Tarrant County Lon Evans Correction Center, according to online jail records. His bond has been set at $250,000.
The warrant obtained by the Star-Telegram provides context to the familial conflict that played out on a gated estate and resulted in the death of the Fort Worth woman.
Queenette Johnson was a member of the Heavenly Gospel Church, where she was known as a “woman of faith” with a “servant heart,” the organization wrote on Facebook. The church asks people to keep her family in their thoughts, including her children, siblings and mother.
Police received a 911 call around 12:20 p.m. Thursday about an SUV crashing through the property fence of an estate in the 8300 block of Meadowbrook Drive, according to the warrant. The caller reported hearing a gunshot in the moments before the wreck.
Responding officers saw where the SUV had crashed through the fence and the path it took across the yard into a tree, the warrant says. Queenette Johnson was in the driver’s seat, unresponsive, and Alvie Johnson was outside of the SUV with possible injuries to his leg.
A pistol rested in the grass behind the SUV, the warrant says.
Queenette Johnson was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 1:13 p.m. Alvie Johnson told officers he was her father, according to the warrant, and made a statement to a firefighter that he had shot her.
He was transported to the police headquarters on Calvert Street for questioning and officers decided to bring a murder charge against him, police said in the warrant.
The estate where the shooting and crash occurred is owned by real estate investor G.L. “Buck” Harris and his wife, who declined to comment Thursday.
