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The attorney representing a former Charlotte volunteer football coach accused of shooting at a southwest Charlotte home said his client has been wrongly accused.
Dia’Mond Johnson, 27, was arrested in South Carolina Oct. 22 and charged with two counts of shooting into an occupied property in Charlotte.
John J. Dowling III, Johnson’s attorney, said evidence shows his client was actually the victim of attempted first-degree murder.
“We look forward to clearing his name in the very near future,” Dowling said.
An arrest affidavit said three people were at the home on Doughton Lane at 11 p.m. Oct. 21 when the shooting occurred. The home was shot at twice and the bullet holes appeared to come from a rifle because of their smaller size, the affidavit said.
“The house shot into appeared to be the backdrop of a shootout that occurred in the roadway,” the affidavit said. “There was also a large amount of glass from a vehicle that goes all the way down the street as if a car was shot into and drove away.”
Two .223 casings, multiple 9 mm casings and a blue baseball hat were found in the roadway, the affidavit said.
Witnesses told police they saw a black Dodge Durango with temporary tags driving from the scene.
Earlier call to police
Police had been in the neighborhood a few hours earlier for a domestic call involving Johnson and a woman, the affidavit said. They argued over the woman having two other men at her home.
Police obtained text messages from the woman’s phone, the affidavit said, that had conversations between her and Johnson about two men threatening to shoot Johnson. She accused him in the texts of threatening the two men.
Johnson texted the woman, “tell em to pull back up so we can have fun.” He sent the woman another message saying to “come outside come talk to me like a women, I am not sleeping.”
The shooting occurred shortly after, the affidavit said.
Johnson, who is from Clover, South Carolina, was arrested and held in York County. He was extradited to Charlotte on Oct. 24, Dowling said. Mecklenburg County court records show Johnson was released after posting a $20,000 bond.
Johnson appeared in court Monday. In a phone interview with The Charlotte Observer on Tuesday, Dowling said he showed photos of Johnson’s vehicle in court with bullet holes in the windshield and driver’s side window. Dowling said someone shot first at Johnson and he fired to defend himself.
Johnson was a volunteer football coach at Ballantyne Ridge High School. Principal Michael Miliote said Johnson would not be allowed to volunteer at any schools in the district anymore.
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