Domonique Boyer, 27, a Black/African American male from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was killed in the early morning hours of May 31, 2014, after violence broke out near the 100 block of East Chestnut Street and North Cherry Street in Lancaster City. Police were first sent to the area for a reported fight involving a large crowd, and as officers were responding around 2:10 a.m., the call escalated into a shooting report.
When police arrived, they found Boyer in a parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound to the torso. He was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, but the injury was fatal, and he was later pronounced dead. The available reports describe the shooting as tied to the fight or disturbance that had drawn police to the area, turning what began as a late-night crowd incident into a homicide investigation.
Investigators quickly identified a suspect. Christopher Johnson, also reported in one source with the spelling “Chistopher Johnson,” of Columbia, was accused of shooting Boyer. He was taken into custody and charged with criminal homicide. At the time of the arrest, Johnson was listed as being held in Lancaster County Prison.
A later report stated that police made a second arrest in the deadly Lancaster shooting, though the publicly available summary did not provide enough detail to confirm the second person’s name, exact alleged role, or final case outcome. The online material located showed the initial homicide charge against Johnson and the later mention of another arrest, but it did not clearly establish trial results, convictions, acquittals, plea agreements, or sentencing details from the sources available.
