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Lashanna Ward

Case from Opelousas, LA dated Jun 03, 2017

Victim Details

Lashanna Ward

Female

Black / African American

Opelousas

LA

2017-06-03

24

Lashanna

Ward

06/28/2026

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Lashanna Ward-Johnson, 24, a Black woman, was killed just after 1:00 a.m. on June 3, 2017, inside her home in Opelousas, Louisiana, in a shooting that began as an emergency call claiming a homeowner had fired at an intruder. By the time officers arrived, the “intruder” story collapsed into a far more intimate tragedy: the person shot was Lashanna herself, and the shooter was her husband, Daniel E. Johnson, who told police he had mistaken her for someone breaking in.

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  • The Advertiser: Wife killed after husband allegedly mistook her for intruder
  • St. Landry Parish jury finds man guilty of murder in wife's death - KATC
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