After serving the Southeast Gang Task Force, he was then transferred to the Traffic Division, where he loved working until his death.
While Johnson was writing a police report, Juan Quintero managed to move his handcuffed hands in front of him, pulled out a concealed 9mm caliber handgun from his waistband through thick layers of clothing and shot Officer Rodney Johnson four times in the back of his head.
Despite being fatally shot, Johnson was able to push an emergency button in his patrol car, which alerted officers of the situation.
[8] In 2008, she sued the Houston Police Department for wrongful death for not allowing a two-man patrol car.
[8] Johnson separately filled another lawsuit, a federal civil rights action challenging the City of Houston's policy preventing officers from informing federal officials of immigration status of detained persons; she argued that the policy was an unconstitutional violation of free speech.
[8] In 2011, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the decision, finding that "the cases challenged different HPD policies - the one in force at the time of Rodney Johnson's death and a later revision.
[1] In late 1999, however, the owner of a landscaping business that he had employed Quintero in Houston lent him money to hire a coyote to smuggle him across the border.
[1] He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the charge of capital murder; the jury rejected this defense and convicted him.
[12] U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle in Houston said the prosecution of Camp serves to "demonstrate the consequences a U.S. citizen faces" by harboring, employing or helping an illegal immigrant enter the country.