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Berner Johnson

Case from Washington, DC dated May 15, 2019

Victim Details

Berner Johnson

December 13, 2022

Male

Caucasian / White

Washington

DC

2019-05-15

48

Berner

Johnson

07/21/2026


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Berner Richard Johnson III, a 48-year-old man known to his friends and family as 'Bud,' died in May 2019 following a physical altercation in Washington, D.C. A longtime employee of the Senate and a beloved youth baseball coach on Capitol Hill, Johnson's death was the result of a dispute that began inside a restaurant and spilled out into the street.

The incident occurred on the evening of May 15, 2019, in the Navy Yard neighborhood, near the Scarlet Oak restaurant and bar, a place Johnson ...
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