A former D.C. firefighter cadet and her boyfriend have been sentenced for their roles in a shooting of the woman’s former boyfriend and the subsequent cover-up, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Prosecutors said 23-year-old Dominique L. Taylor was a cadet at the D.C. fire academy in March 2007 when her boyfriend, Frank D. “Pacman” Johnson, 28, shot the father of her 10-month old child in Southeast Washington.
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D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert I. Richter sentenced Johnson to 15 years in prison on charges of aggravated assault while armed, carjacking and a weapons offense. Taylor was sentenced to four months behind bars for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors said the father went to pick up the child, leaving the engine of his red and orange Camaro running. He and Johnson had words and Johnson shot the father in the back, the bullet ripping through his pelvis and coming out his abdomen. Johnson stood over the father, taunted him and fired the weapon again, striking him in the arm. He then sped off in the Camaro and attended two separate barbecues that night.
When police arrived on the shooting scene, Taylor was outside still wearing her D.C. fire department uniform. She was not rendering aid to the victim.
When paramedics appeared, Taylor tried to leave the scene but was stopped by detectives.
Two days before Johnson’s trial in 2008, prosecutors said, the father was on his way to meet Taylor when he was shot multiple times at a gas station by two masked men. The father survived.
Johnson boasted to an inmate at the D.C. Jail that he had his men shoot the victim to prevent him from testifying, prosecutors said.
Taylor was fired from the D.C. fire department after her February conviction, prosecutors said.
Investigators uncovered numerous recorded phone calls showing Taylor and Johnson had conspired to cover up Johnson’s crimes, prosecutors said.
The recorded phone calls also showed that Johnson and Taylor both despised the victim and were disgusted that he had told the police who had shot him, prosecutors said.
