Joliet Killer Jasper Johnson Draws Long Prison Sentence

Joliet IL

24 March, 2022

5:27 PM

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JOLIET, IL — The Office of Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow announced that Judge Sarah Jones sentenced 35-year-old Joliet resident Jasper Johnson on Thursday to 48 years in prison for killing his girlfriend Kia Johnson. The homicide happened in their Joliet apartment at Evergreen Terrace on June 5, 2017. Johnson received 48 years for first-degree murder. Two other sentences were ordered to be served at the same time. According to prosecutors, the homicide occurred when Jasper Johnson, who claimed he was intoxicated, was playing with his revolver. Despite having been told by the victim not to play with the gun, Jasper Johnson manipulated the gun by spinning the cylinder, cocking the hammer, and pulling the trigger, prosecutors said. He fired the gun, striking the victim in the left side of her head. "Jasper Johnson is a convicted felon who tried to absolve himself of responsibility for the death of his girlfriend by claiming he was just playing with the gun," Glasgow declared in Friday's news release. "Aiming a loaded gun at another human being and pulling the trigger is an act that can cause death or great bodily harm; that's murder. "Nothing can bring Kia back to life, but Johnson will have decades in the ominous confines of a dismal prison cell to reflect on how his actions caused her death." Johnson will receive 1,743 days of credit for time served in the Will County Jail.