SHANNON M. JOHNSON EXECUTED IN DELAWARE ON APRIL 20, 2012

Shannon M. Johnson was executed by lethal injection in Delaware on this date, April 20, 2012 for the murder of Cameron Hamlin on September 24, 2006. He was put to death only after six years of them murder as he needed a suicide assist. Let us hear from the victim’s family.

Vandrick Hamlin

Summary: On the morning of September 24, 2006, Cameron Hamelin was shot intentionally and killed while seated in his vehicle at the intersection of Jessup and Vandever Streets in Wilmington. Lakeisha Truitt, who was in the passenger seat of Hamelin's vehicle, was not struck. Lakeisha called 911 and identified Shannon Johnson, the father of her child, as the shooter. Johnson was not apprehended immediately. Weeks later, on November 10, 2006, Lakeisha Truitt was driving her vehicle in Wilmington, near her home on 35th Street, when she was shot intentionally. She survived and identified Johnson as the person who shot her. On November 15, 2006, Johnson was arrested in Wilmington at the home of a female friend, Rima Stewart. In sentencing Johnson to death, the judge noted his long criminal history, including the 2002 rape of a teenager who was seven months pregnant.

QUOTE 1: Vandrick Hamlin, the father of Cameron Hamlin, said it does not matter to him if Johnson goes willingly or not.

"The way I feel is he was going to die anyway," he said. "I don't care. ... He did me a favor by doing that."

QUOTE 2: 'Now it's time for us to focus on putting our lives back together,’ said his father, Vandrick Hamlin.

AUTHOR: Vandrick Hamlin whose son, Cameron Hamlin was murdered by Shannon M. Johnson on September 24, 2006. Shannon M. Johnson waived his appeals and was executed by lethal injection in Delaware on April 20, 2012.