Amir Johnson was located in Maine after spending more than two years wanted in the fatal shooting of Shakeia Allen.

NOTTINGHAM, Md. — More than two years after 27-year-old Shakeia Allen was shot to death outside the Baltimore County apartment where she had recently moved, the man accused of killing her is back in Maryland and under indictment. Amir Johnson, 26, faces a first-degree murder charge after authorities discovered him in custody in Maine in August.

The indictment transformed a case that had long centered on a fugitive search into an active murder prosecution. Law&Crime, citing Baltimore County court records, reported that Johnson also faces a charge of using a firearm in the commission of a felony or crime of violence. CBS News Baltimore reported that he was being held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center after his return from Maine. The latest public reporting reviewed for this story did not identify a trial date or a later disposition of the charges.

Johnson had been wanted since Allen was killed on April 21, 2024, in the unit block of Whitelaw Place in Nottingham. Baltimore County officers responded at about 3 p.m. and found Allen suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police later identified Johnson, who had been in a relationship with Allen, as the suspect and said the shooting was targeted. He was 24 when authorities first publicly sought him in connection with the case.

The evidence described by investigators included a recording made by a person near the apartment complex. Court documents cited by CBS News Baltimore say the video shows Johnson chasing Allen through the parking lot before she was shot several times at close range. Allen can be heard telling him, “Get away from me!” A neighbor also shouted for him to leave her alone before the gunfire. News organizations have described the footage without repeatedly publishing its most disturbing details.

The recording also captured Allen saying that she had a restraining order against Johnson. Publicly reported court records provide additional but not fully matching context. CBS reported that Johnson and Allen had filed protective-order actions against each other in August 2023 and that those matters were later dismissed after neither appeared in court. The available reports do not establish whether the order Allen referred to in the recording was one of those earlier actions, another order or an order with a different status.

There had been another court case before Allen’s death. Johnson was charged with assault in February 2024 after a dispute between the couple that charging documents said had continued for several days and turned physical. CBS reported that he had been scheduled to appear in court in that matter shortly after Allen was killed. He did not appear. Those allegations were separate from the later murder case, and the available reporting does not establish a final disposition of the earlier assault charge.

Neighbors said Allen had lived at the apartment complex only a few days. Dawn Beddis told CBS News Baltimore that residents later learned Allen had moved there in an effort to get away from Johnson. That account came from a neighbor rather than a police finding, but it gave the location additional significance for people who lived nearby. Allen was also described by neighbors as the mother of a young child.

After the shooting, investigators focused on finding Johnson. Baltimore County police publicly identified him as a wanted suspect in June 2024 and said he had possible ties to Brooklyn, New York. Months passed without an arrest. In December 2024, police again appealed for information after the video of Allen’s killing had circulated online. The case drew continued attention from residents and others calling for an arrest while detectives kept the homicide warrant active.

Federal authorities eventually joined the public push. On April 24, 2026, the U.S. Marshals Service announced that it was seeking Johnson and offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to his arrest. The agency said Johnson had been charged in Baltimore County District Court with first-degree murder and alleged that he shot his girlfriend in the parking lot of her apartment building before fleeing in a vehicle. At that point, nearly two years had passed since Allen’s death.

The break in the search did not come from a Maryland arrest. CBS reported that Johnson was arrested Aug. 13 in Auburn, Maine, on domestic violence assault and domestic violence aggravated assault charges arising from an April 23, 2026, incident. When authorities ran his information, they discovered the outstanding Maryland homicide case. The Maine charges were dropped the next day, according to CBS, after Johnson was in custody and being returned to Maryland. Reporting from Maine and Maryland said the wanted notice helped officers recognize the significance of the arrest.

Johnson’s capture ended the fugitive phase of the case but did not resolve the central accusation. A grand jury subsequently indicted him in connection with Allen’s death. An indictment is a formal accusation, not a finding of guilt, and prosecutors would still have to prove their case in court. Johnson is entitled to challenge the evidence against him and is presumed innocent unless he is convicted.

The case now rests on a record assembled across more than two years: the witness recording, police investigation, prior court records and the circumstances of Johnson’s eventual arrest. Prosecutors have not publicly disclosed in the reports reviewed here all of the evidence they intend to present, and no motive has been established as a proven fact. The recording documents Allen attempting to get away, but questions about what preceded Johnson’s arrival at the complex and what evidence investigators collected afterward remain matters for the court process.

For Allen’s neighbors, the August arrest also removed a concern that had lingered since 2024. CBS reported that residents had remained alert in case Johnson returned to the complex. One neighbor who was home at the time of the shooting said after the arrest that she hoped the criminal case would finally move forward. Those reactions came before any trial and reflect the views of witnesses and residents, not a legal determination of Johnson’s guilt.

Johnson remained charged with first-degree murder in the latest available reporting and was being held without bond after his return to Baltimore County. The prosecution that follows will determine whether the allegations that drove a more than two-year manhunt can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

Author note: Last updated October 17, 2026.