A jury has reached a verdict in the September 2023 murder of an Erie man. Defonta Butler, 31, who is accused of killing ...

The evidence, presented over 2½ days of testimony before Erie County Judge Daniel Brabender, clearly showed that Butler followed Johnson throughout parts of Erie on the morning of Sept. 22, 2023, ...

Defonta Butler is on trial for the murder of Jeffery L. Johnson, whom he allegedly shot on Sept. 22, 2023. The prosecution ...

Johnson, with pulling the trigger. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without a license in the shooting of Defonta L.D. Butler. Johnson was sentenced in March 2017 to ...

Police have charged 30-year-old Defonta L.D. Butler in the homicide. More: Erie man shot by suspect in 2015 charged with fatally shooting him near French Street The 13 deaths ruled as homicides in ...