Arizona man facing attempted murder charges after livestreaming himself choking a DCS worker for nearly 3 minutes.
The DCS worker fought for his life but eventually went unconscious during the video. The Arizona father then looks into his phone during his Facebook live and states that the DCS worker was a "dead man walking," seemingly justifying his actions.
32-year-old De'Andre Johnson has been charged with felony assault and attempted murder after a November 5th meeting with a DCS worker regarding a grievance. Johnson became upset after learning a DCS worker had a closed door meeting with his 9-year-old daughter (concerning her safety) and he wasn't told about it.
In a video he posted to social media the day before the nearly fatal attack, Johnson voiced his frustration with the DCS worker stating, "You damn right I'm mad, Somebody that didn't work at the school took a 9-year-old girl into a room and there ain't no video or audio recording."
In an attempt to clear up the issue the DCS worker met with Johnson at their offices in Mesa, Arizona. An hour long meeting ensued which Johnson live streamed. The DCS worker was informative and polite during the meeting. When it seemed the meeting was wrapping up the worker stood up to depart Johnson can be heard asking the worker to "dab him up". You can see this moment in the second photograph, below. The worker turned around and reciprocated the fist bump and that's when Johnson wrapped him up in a very tight choke hold. This can be seen in the third photograph, below.
He then choked the helpless man for nearly 3 minutes while looking unhinged and staring into the camera and muttering threats. Eyewitnesses started yelling in the background, in the video. He then dumped the unconscious worker face first on the floor. The DCS workers hands had curled up and went stiff showing that he was suffering from a nearly fatal loss of oxygenated blood to his brain. Dropping the unconscious man on his head, Johnson noticed the worker was still slightly breathing. Johnson quipped, "I didn't make my f***ing point," and attempted to go after the worker again to finish the job. Fortunately, several eyewitnesses screamed and attempted to intervene which made Johnson give up.
Johnson then sat in a chair and waited for police to arrest him.
De'Andre Johnson remains in jail on a $500,000 bond.
The DCS worker did survive this vicious attack.
More photos below.
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