Cody Johnson, Texas teen shot dead in suspected road rage shooting while driving to Katy in Chevy Camaro to pick up his girlfriend when he was shot dead. No suspects or arrests as victim’s family appeal to the public for leads.
A 19 year old Texas teen on the way to pick up his girlfriend, Friday night, was shot and killed in a suspected road rage shooting. To date no arrests have been made as the victim’s family now appeal for leads.
Cody Johnson, 19, was found deceased along the busy Katy Freeway, near I-99 after a passerby reported the victim’s vehicle ‘slowly’ rolling down the highway according to a release from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Johnson’s family said Cody’s vehicle might have been rolling for ‘some time’ before it was reported. The victim’s body was ‘riddled’ with bullets leading to authorities to now suspecting that Cody was the victim of an apparent road rage shooting.
Parents seek answers
To date no individual who may have witnessed what happened has come forward.
Cody had left his mother’s house in Missouri City, about 20 miles south of Houston, an hour earlier, around 7pm, and was driving to see his girlfriend, who lives in Katy, when just after 8.05pm the 19 year old was found shot dead inside his black Chevy 2011 Camaro vehicle with gold rims.
‘It was a muscle car, a true muscle car and it was loud, and it was a teenage boy’s dream car,’ Cody’s dad, Mike Johnson told ABC13. ‘If you saw it driving down the road, you would notice that car.’
Cody’s family said the 19 year old had a passion for vehicles.
‘Just please, as parents, we just want answers about our son and any leads, anything. Any dash cam [videos]. Anybody who saw anything around that area that night, if you could just reach out to Harris County Crimestoppers just to help us have closure. We don’t want to let these people get anybody else, do this to anybody else,’ Cody’s mother, Amy Juneau, said.
Cody’s parents who they described as a ‘good kid,’ was a former student-athlete who was ‘just getting his life back’ after a motorcycle crash over the summer prevented him from starting at Texas State. Cody was well enough to begin working this week as a car salesman when he was killed inside his own vehicle.
Houston leading US city for road rage shootings in US
‘He was making a big transition but he had finally found his path. He was, as he told me that morning, he was ‘finally happy.’ He had his whole world ahead of him,’ Cody’s dad said.
The family say they cannot truly lay their son to rest until they have answers, with the family now asking that their son’s killer to come forward.
“If you’re the one that pulled the trigger, be responsible. If you’re strong enough to pull the trigger, you’re strong enough to stand up and say, ‘You know what, I made a mistake,’’ Cody’s father said.
Houston – only a few miles away from the crime scene – is known for being the city with the most road-rage shootings over the past decade, with a total of 215 incidents since 2014.
To date no suspects or leads have been revealed. No motive for the shooting was immediately known.
