A doorbell camera directly across the street from the location of a fatal shooting last year offered the best angle of the crime, a Toledo police officer who compiles investigative videos said during two suspects’ trial Monday morning.
But because such cameras are usually set for motion activation, Officer Michael Benninghoff said in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, they may not be recording when something happens that doesn’t involve visible motion.
That apparently was what happened with the March 4, 2025, shooting death of Joseph Johnson in the 900 block of Woodward Avenue, where a camera at 904 Woodward had a seven-second gap between its recordings of young Johnson’s interactions with the occupants of a black Dodge Avenger…