Johnson died of a (possibly self-inflicted) gun wound early Monday after being pulled by a sheriff’s deputy.
It’s not clear why 17-year-old Billey Joe Johnson was stopped in Lucedale, but authorities say the junior tailback shot himself with a shotgun after the deputy walked back to the patrol car to run a license check.
“The deputy was sitting in his patrol vehicle … when he heard a gunshot and saw the victim laying on the ground by the driver’s side door of the vehicle that Johnson was driving. A shotgun was lying on the victim,” according to a statement from the George County Sheriff’s Department.
Authorities would not immediately say whether they believed the shooting was a suicide or an accident. [from the Johnson article]
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Is there anyone stupid enough to believe that this was either a suicide or an accident? Ok, perhaps the police thought it was an accident when they killed him.