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Charges filed in Plymouth sneaker shooting

Augustus Matthew Sirleaf
Plymouth Police
Plymouth Police

Charges are filed against a 19-year-old man from Plymouth in the shooting death of a teenager last week.

Augustus Matthew Sirleaf, Junior faces two second-degree murder charges and remains in custody on one-million dollars bail. On November 14th, 17-year-old Yaseen Johnson was found shot to death in a car parked near an apartment complex on 37th Place North in Plymouth. Investigators say the shooting followed a dispute over the sale of a pair of high-end sneakers.


Sirleaf turned himself in three days after the incident.

A second person who was arrested in connection with the shooting has been released.

A third person, identified by police as a 19-year-old man from New Hope, remains at large.