Johnson died at the Tarrant County Jail in April 2024. Johnson died by homicide by asphyxiation, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled. Johnson’s parents sued them and 13 other jailers along with Tarrant County, for their son’s wrongful death later that year. “Nothing like the death of Anthony Johnson, Jr. has ever occurred within the Tarrant County jail,” Owens said. There’s been nearly 80 Tarrant County jail deaths since 2017 when Sheriff Bill Waybourn took office, including an inmate named Derick Wynn.