PC KICKOFF MEETING ATTRACTS HUNDREDS LOCAL | B1 PANAMA CITY LOCAL & STATE | B1 KITTEN ON MEND AFTER 60-FOOT FALL Tuesday, May 7, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ State OKs $240M in hurricane aid Derrick Thompson, left, listens to opening arguments during his murder trial on May 1 at the Bay County Courthouse. Thompson was subsequently convicted of fi rst-degree murder in the killing of Allen Johnson in 2014. [PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] Thompson’s sentence in jury’s hands Triple killer could get niece, cried when reading death penalty for a statement about how her 2014 slaying of friend uncle was kind and generous, Allen Johnson including helping with her horse-riding hobby when By Collin Breaux she was young.
[email protected] “It’s about what he still @PCNHCollinB means to us and has done for all of us. Uncle Allen was PANAMA CITY — A jury present throughout all of my will decide whether Der- childhood,” Limmer said. rick Thompson will get life “He made games for each kid without parole or the death because he knew we were all penalty for the 2014 murder different but his to love. ... of Allen Johnson. I won’t be able to call him Thompson was found anymore and tell him how guilty Friday of first-degree thankful I am.” murder and robbery with Carolyn Thompson, a firearm for the killing of Thompson’s mother, was Johnson, a friend, to get called to the stand to talk The words “Keep your head up Panama City” are spray-painted on a cabinet near the former Grocery money to finance an addic- about her son.