Job center shooter gets 82 years in prison

Published October 8, 2011 4:00am ET



A Fort Washington man was sentenced to 82 years in prison Friday for a shooting rampage at a District of Columbia vocational training school in which two people were wounded. Thirty-year-old Wesley R. Johnson Jr. was convicted in May by a D.C. jury of 32 charges, including assault with intent to kill, carjacking while armed, and assault of a police officer while armed.

On April 28, 2008, Johnson walked into the Excel Institute, 2800 block of V Street NE, wearing a black suit, black hat and carrying a bag. Johnson had been a student at the institute for about a month, and seemed to be doing well, according to records. But on that April day he told a friend he was “Tired of it all,” and wrote a suicide note saying, “It’s judgment day.”

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