Cops trap ex-policeman suspected of killing ex-boyfriend with axe & gun

After a high-speed car chase, Louisiana police arrested 33-year-old Marcus Johnson, a former Jackson Police Department (JPD) officer from Mississippi, on Wednesday evening. Johnson allegedly used a gun and axe to kill his ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old nurse Carlos Collins.

Collins was murdered in his Jackson, Mississippi apartment on April 9. His family members told WAPT that Collins died from gunshot wounds, and an axe was used during the incident.

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Collins, who was a registered nurse at the local Baptist Medical Center, allegedly had multiple restraining orders against Johnson. Collins’s mother, Ashla Hudson, referred to Johnson as her son’s ex-boyfriend, and said that Johnson followed her son into a local bar called the M-Bar Sports Lounge on Saturday night, violating the restraining order.

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The bar’s security guards reportedly told Collins that “they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t actively have the restraining order there,” Hudson said. “I figure if they had arrested him Saturday night, my son still [would] be alive.”

After discovering Collins’ body, police secured a warrant and a police bulletin for Collins’ arrest. However, Collins allegedly fled the state in his black Honda Accord car. Police tracked his vehicle as it crossed over into Louisiana. After a chase and multiple attempts to deflate his car’s tires, the police eventually succeeded, bringing the car to a stop. Police then arrested Collins and charged him with murder and shooting in an occupied dwelling.

Previously, Johnson served as a JPD officer for only eight months and resigned just before facing disciplinary actions. He was arrested in 2014 for impersonating a police officer.

At the time, Johnson used a ticket police citation book to write a fake citation to a female Jackson State University student. He told the woman that he would void the ticket if she would “hook up” with him. Police charged him with false pretense, grand larceny, and two counts of impersonating an officer in the incident.

Hudson, who also worked as a nurse, said that her son was compassionate, a helpful family man, and loved caring for sick people.

“When he graduated high school, he wanted to follow in my footsteps,” Hudson said. “He grew up in nursing, and I always told him go and be better than me, and he did.”