Help keep cop-killer Shatiek Johnson, DIN #99A6891, in prison for life for the 1998 murder of NYPD Police Officer Gerard L. Carter. Please help us oppose parole by sending a letter no later than February 20, 2023, to Ms. Rashida Littlejohn, Supervising Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator, Attica Correctional Facility, 639 Exchange St Rd, Attica, NY 14011 (or email [email protected] ). We have included a sample letter below:
Ms. Rashida Littlejohn
Supervising Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator
Attica Correctional Facility
639 Exchange Street
Attica, NY 14011
RE: Shatiek Johnson, DIN #99A6891
Dear Ms. Littlejohn & Members of the NYS Parole Board:
I understand that inmate Shatiek Johnson, DIN #99A6891 will be seeking parole this March, and I request that Johnson’s parole application be denied.
Johnson is serving time at Attica Correctional Facility for the cold-blooded 1998 murder of NYPD Police Officer Gerard L. Carter.
On Sunday, July 26, 1998, at approximately 9:40 p.m., P.O. Carter and his partner were patrolling in a marked police van outside a housing development in the confines of the 120 Precinct in Staten Island. Suddenly, a young man appeared and approached the van, shooting through the window. His bullets shattered the windshield, striking Officer Carter in the temple. Officer Carter’s partner returned the gunfire, but the subject was able to flee.
An intense, all night manhunt ended with the 17-year-old subject, Shatiek Johnson, barricading himself in the closet of an apartment in a housing complex while he fought off police. Johnson was also wanted for questioning in another homicide. It turns out that Johnson was already on parole for a manslaughter conviction after he beat a man to death during a fight. He was eventually arrested, tried, and in a plea deal, sentenced to 25-years-to-life for the killing of Officer Carter.
Now, this killer believes he deserves parole.
For the family, friends, and colleagues of Officer Gerard L. Carter there will never be any parole from the pain and frustration of his senseless, sudden death. Their misery should not be compounded by the potential freedom of this cop-killer.
After being shot, P.O. Carter lingered in a medically induced coma for five days before he died on July 31, 1998. He was only 28 years old, had been on the force for five years, and left a heartbroken family, friends, and Police Department. He was survived by his mother, his brother, his wife and a six-year-old son. He had a stellar police record, and had followed in the public service footsteps of his father, Gaston Carter, a 24-year veteran of the NYPD who had suffered a heart attack and died in the line of police duty in 1990.
The fact that P.O. Gerard Carter was murdered by a criminally indoctrinated teenager was not lost on the citizens of New York at the time of the crime. P.O. Carter had worked with area youth as a coach of softball teams in the housing developments, and he generously staged barbeques for the area children, while also working with the local law enforcement Explorers of the Boy Scouts. Carter had been commended by a local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, in 1995 for his efforts in capturing a robber who preyed on senior citizens in the Stapleton housing development. The fact that P.O. Carter was purposely killed so violently and for no reason should not be lost on the New York State Parole Board now.
I urge the Parole Division of the State of New York to deny the parole petition of Shatiek Johnson, DIN #99A6891. This criminal lost his right to freedom the day he wantonly gunned down a hardworking, New York City Police Officer who was serving and protecting the citizens of this City and State.
Let justice be served by keeping Shatiek Johnson in prison for life. Thank you for considering my position.
Sincerely,
