SHREVEPORT, LA — A jury has found Donald Dewayne White II guilty of killing his former partner and her mother, and attempting to kill her father.

White, 32, was convicted on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder after jurors deliberated for just an hour. The verdict came in Caddo District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr.’s courtroom, where the trial began earlier this week.

According to the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office, the state called nine witnesses to recount the events of January 14, 2024, when White forcibly entered a Shreveport residence in the Martin Luther King neighborhood—the home of his estranged common-law wife’s parents. Inside were Jasmine Johnson, 29, her parents Joan and John B. Johnson, and three small children.

Jasmine tried to flee but was shot four times outside the home. Despite emergency efforts by Shreveport Police officers, she did not survive. Her mother, 70-year-old Joan Johnson, was shot and killed inside the house. John Johnson, 77, was also shot but survived and testified at trial, identifying White as the shooter.

According to The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate, John Johnson slowly made his way to the stand during Tuesday’s proceedings, captivating jurors and spectators alike with his account. “He did this like right here,” Johnson said, mimicking White’s motion with an extended arm and twisted wrist. “Pow. He shot me.” When White, who represented himself, asked whether he was sure of the shooter’s identity, Johnson responded without hesitation: “I’m a thousand percent.”

White’s courtroom behavior drew repeated interventions from Judge Hathaway, who reminded the defendant more than once of the rules of legal procedure. Despite warnings, Hathaway was forced to deny multiple objections and at one point remarked, “That’s not how this works.”

Adding to the emotional weight of the trial was the posthumous testimony of Jasmine Johnson, played for the jury in a recording from an earlier police interview. In the August 2023 tape, played by prosecutor Jason Waltman, Jasmine recounted an earlier violent encounter with White. At the time, she was 23 weeks pregnant. She told Shreveport Police investigator Jennie Brooks that White had chased her vehicle with their children inside, forced her off the road, and physically assaulted her.

“By your shirt?” Brooks asked.

“Uh-huh, and by my hair,” Jasmine responded. She ended the recording with a chilling recollection: “I drove off quick, because he said he was gonna kill me.”

The three children present during the January shooting were not physically harmed, according to KSLA.

White was arrested shortly after the attack, identified by the surviving victim and later confessing during a tape-recorded interview that was played at trial. He will return to court on September 19 for sentencing. According to prosecutors, he faces two mandatory life sentences without parole, probation, or suspension, and an additional 10 to 50 years for the attempted murder charge—also without the possibility of early release.

Assistant District Attorneys Jason Waltman and Chris Bowman prosecuted the case. White, despite representing himself, was assisted by attorney Harry Johnson.

As the trial concluded, the outcome delivered a measure of legal closure in a case marked by domestic violence, loss, and the testimony of a father who refused to let his family’s story go untold.