GUILTY PA - Nalani Johnson, 2, Penn Hills Boro, Allegheny County, 31 Aug 2019 *Arrest* #2

[cass523]

A couple of Sheetz stores? I thought it was just the one in Murrysville.

I found a news story dated Sept 2nd, mentioning a gas station in Monroeville. But, knowing the source of this info, it may not be true. LE will release the details in due time.

"According to investigators, Nancy said Johnson instructed her to drive the child “20 minutes from a gas station in Monroeville along Route 22.” Then, Nancy allegedly said, she was flagged down by a woman with out-of-state plates on her silver SUV. Another woman was also supposedly waiting inside the non-Pennsylvanian vehicle."

Police Say Pa. Woman, 25, Kidnapped 2-Year-Old Nalani Johnson — Here’s What We Kno

 

[katydid23]

I found a news story dated Sept 2nd, mentioning a gas station in Monroeville. But, knowing the source of this info, it may not be true. LE will release the details in due time.

"According to investigators, Nancy said Johnson instructed her to drive the child “20 minutes from a gas station in Monroeville along Route 22.” Then, Nancy allegedly said, she was flagged down by a woman with out-of-state plates on her silver SUV. Another woman was also supposedly waiting inside the non-Pennsylvanian vehicle."

Police Say Pa. Woman, 25, Kidnapped 2-Year-Old Nalani Johnson — Here’s What We Kno

Yah Sure, that makes sense- these out of state baby traffickers are going to pay thousands of bucks, then take the adorable 2 yr old, and leave her deceased, in a local park.

 

[ilovechili]

An earlier poster mentioned that she stopped at a couple of Sheetz stores and wondered if SN was maybe looking to meet someone but wasn’t sure which one. A neighbor said SN was desperate for money also.

Hard to even guess at what was going on in this sick woman’s mind.

Interesting. I myself just keep in mind how often there is partial truth in lies which is why her story of his selling the child I feel may have actually been in her sick mind to do.

Why did she have to kill her though? If she had just returned her, she likely possibly could have played down the charge as a reaction in a lover's spat or even tried to claim she did not realize the child was still in the vehicle or some such when she took off angry. She very well may have just ended up with a slap on the hand.

As you said, it is hard to know what was going on in her head or the motive at this time. The end result though is the death of another beautiful innocent child.

Sick and twisted. Smh.

Jmo.

 

[CCJD]

I misspoke. She was caught on camera only at the Murrysville Sheetz. It was theorized that she may have been trying to stop at other Sheetz stores along the way, since there was others along her route.

I will make this observation. In each of the locations law enforcement gave out - there is a Sheetz. It seems like she was going to each of the Sheetz along the way. While it is true that Sheetz is a big player in the convenience/gas station business and should be expected in those locations there could be something to it. I would like to know if law enforcement has her or the vehicle on camera at the Sheetz in New Alexandria or either of the Sheetz in Blairsville (in town and near Chestnut Ridge Golf Course).

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Since Sheetz is such a big player in the area, it makes it a good landmark (maybe too good). They're easy to spot.

I hate beating a dead horse. Seriously, I get bored with rehash but I have questions:
-What's up with the two cars (the one at Sheetz vs the one impounded from Rodi Road).
-Why was it originally called a Prius and later a Yaris?
-Why did the woman on the video inside Sheetz look more like someone in her 40s or 50s, not in her 20s? Just bad quality video?
-What role does the house on 22 in Blairville play in all this and what items were removed.

And here's the DA again:
Zappala said technologies such as license plate readers and cellphone tracking helped authorities find the body of Nalani Johnson, who was still strapped in a car seat, in a park in Indiana County Sept. 3. The technology has also played a significant role as suspect Sharena Nancy is investigated.
...and...
License plate readers picked up Nancy’s car at two locations on Route 22, near Monroeville, according to Zappala. In addition, a surveillance camera captured her at a convenience store in Murrysville.
NALANI JOHNSON: Technology helping investigators build case against suspect in toddler's abduction, death

So which car did the license plate readers pick up?

 

[Jethro4WS]

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Since Sheetz is such a big player in the area, it makes it a good landmark (maybe too good). They're easy to spot.

I hate beating a dead horse. Seriously, I get bored with rehash but I have questions:
-What's up with the two cars (the one at Sheetz vs the one impounded from Rodi Road).
-Why was it originally called a Prius and later a Yaris?
-Why did the woman on the video inside Sheetz look more like someone in her 40s or 50s, not in her 20s? Just bad quality video?
-What role does the house on 22 in Blairville play in all this and what items were removed.

And here's the DA again:
Zappala said technologies such as license plate readers and cellphone tracking helped authorities find the body of Nalani Johnson, who was still strapped in a car seat, in a park in Indiana County Sept. 3. The technology has also played a significant role as suspect Sharena Nancy is investigated.
...and...
License plate readers picked up Nancy’s car at two locations on Route 22, near Monroeville, according to Zappala. In addition, a surveillance camera captured her at a convenience store in Murrysville.
NALANI JOHNSON: Technology helping investigators build case against suspect in toddler's abduction, death

So which car did the license plate readers pick up?

The big thing is the two different cars. I am surprised that the media hasn't asked about it and an explanation provided.

 

[cass523]

It looks like SN's Preliminary Hearing has been changed to November 4th.

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.ashx?docketNumber=MJ-05206-CR-0000489-2019&dnh=Hp7KelPkPzhlR7f+BVZ3uw==&fbclid=IwAR130kqKbP5bUjucFu_nhbHNNx4f-18agc_u7mJB1t4Rrg0IZiZE2NwnW98

 

[steeltowngirl]

Nalani J. Johnson
Friday, September 15th, 2017 – Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Sweet baby girl.

You should be blowing out two small birthday candles today.
Instead, we are lighting them in your memory.

 

[ilovechili]

Nalani J. Johnson
Friday, September 15th, 2017 – Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Sweet baby girl.

You should be blowing out two small birthday candles today.
Instead, we are lighting them in your memory.

How tragic. Happy Birthday Sweet Child! You are likely having a better one than you would have had here. No fear, no sadness, only happiness with no evil.

Jmo.

 

[PommyMommy]

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Baby Girl!

 

[crhedBngr]

Happy Birthday, Beautiful Girl!

I'm so sorry you aren't here to celebrate it.

 

[TTF14]

Happy Birthday, Beautiful Angel.

 

[Subiechik21]

Happy Birthday in Heaven Sweet Angel!

 

[PommyMommy]

SEP 16, 2019
Commissioners propose compromise memorial to child
[...]

Don’t let Nalani Johnson be forgotten; keep her memory alive, area residents have said.

[...]

Sentiment for a local memorial, so strong that it prompted mourners to start an online petition drive, called for renaming Indiana County-owned Pine Ridge Park as Nalani Johnson Park instead.

And if not that, then a playground or a bench within the park should honor her, petition leader Nadia Tillman wrote on the change.org website that is collecting the petition signatures.

[...]

The Indiana County board of commissioners, who have ultimate control over the park, today joined the sentimental response to Nalani Johnson’s tragic death but said a memorial close to her family would be most appropriate.

[...]

In a prepared statement issued this morning, the commissioners took middle ground.

[...]

“The commissioners will consult with members of the Parks and Trails Advisory Board for guidance on the placement of a memorial bench in her honor,” the commissioners wrote. “However, we feel that a toddler park would be better suited to a location closer to her own home, as opposed to here in Indiana County, and urge organizers to work with her family to help that happen.”

[...]

“I think it’s the family’s decision, whether to have a memorial here. It makes more sense to have memorial where that little girl lived and played, rather than them having to drive up the highway,” Krivansky told The Gazette.

“The kids around here — they didn’t know that little girl, and I don’t know of any ties they had to the community. I feel the little girl needs to be honored in some way but it should be up to the family, rather than a petition from people who didn’t know her.”

[...]

Nalani Johnson’s death remains under investigation by the Indiana County coroner’s office, the Allegheny County police and the Allegheny County district attorney.

[...]

 

[ilovechili]

SEP 16, 2019
Commissioners propose compromise memorial to child
[...]

Don’t let Nalani Johnson be forgotten; keep her memory alive, area residents have said.

[...]

Sentiment for a local memorial, so strong that it prompted mourners to start an online petition drive, called for renaming Indiana County-owned Pine Ridge Park as Nalani Johnson Park instead.

And if not that, then a playground or a bench within the park should honor her, petition leader Nadia Tillman wrote on the change.org website that is collecting the petition signatures.

[...]

The Indiana County board of commissioners, who have ultimate control over the park, today joined the sentimental response to Nalani Johnson’s tragic death but said a memorial close to her family would be most appropriate.

[...]

In a prepared statement issued this morning, the commissioners took middle ground.

[...]

“The commissioners will consult with members of the Parks and Trails Advisory Board for guidance on the placement of a memorial bench in her honor,” the commissioners wrote. “However, we feel that a toddler park would be better suited to a location closer to her own home, as opposed to here in Indiana County, and urge organizers to work with her family to help that happen.”

[...]

“I think it’s the family’s decision, whether to have a memorial here. It makes more sense to have memorial where that little girl lived and played, rather than them having to drive up the highway,” Krivansky told The Gazette.

“The kids around here — they didn’t know that little girl, and I don’t know of any ties they had to the community. I feel the little girl needs to be honored in some way but it should be up to the family, rather than a petition from people who didn’t know her.”

[...]

Nalani Johnson’s death remains under investigation by the Indiana County coroner’s office, the Allegheny County police and the Allegheny County district attorney.

[...]

He made good points and I get people mean well but I felt and still feel this way with Maleah's case too. In Nalani's case here, we do not even know for certain who knew what, why it happened, etc, who all was involved, the case is fresh. Naming a park over where a person or especially a child possibly died and was murdered and for certain was dumped I just am torn about.

I get people are trying to bless an area where evil happened and honor the child. I get it when people take flowers and candles to the place the person was found or died. However, naming the place they died or were dumped I don't think would ever attract me to the park... I do go the other way in some cases, like the World Trade Center, there were many victims and it is one place to memorialize them all and remind people and a big event in history.

If we think about the Closs case once. Would JC want her family's home on a State Highway to have a marker that that is where they were murdered/died? Maybe one day with it demolished, it could be a park with a bench with their names. Not even sure she would ever want that. It is not up to the well meaning public as these commissioners said. JC right now apparently never wants to see it again nor probably the land either but that is who it should be up to, if they have a say.

I think what you shared above by these commissioners puts it better than I ever could state it. This child was only in this park in this county, etc. because a monster of a woman likely killed this baby and took her there or killed her there. It is not where she lived, it is not a happy place for children or for anyone to remember that...

Let her loved loved ones decide and not now, but in time, grief takes time and decisions should not be made immediately sometimes but again that is jmo.

Don't know if I put what I meant clearly but just my opinion for sure and trying to show how torn people can be on this.

I don't know that I would ever want to take my grandchildren to a park named for where a child perhaps was murdered, hidden and that memorialized the murder. However, I would take them to an area city park where she enjoyed going with a parent or parents or even a grandparent with a bench in her name or even the park in her name and where she had happy times at her young age and to give other children happy times with a children's park.

Definitely just my longwinded opinion... I think these commissioners said it far better than I. In summary, I agree with what they said.

Jmho.

 

[SassynOz]

He made good points and I get people mean well but I felt and still feel this way with Maleah's case too. In Nalani's case here, we do not even know for certain who knew what, why it happened, etc, who all was involved, the case is fresh. Naming a park over where a person or especially a child possibly died and was murdered and for certain was dumped I just am torn about.

I get people are trying to bless an area where evil happened and honor the child. I get it when people take flowers and candles to the place the person was found or died. However, naming the place they died or were dumped I don't think would ever attract me to the park... I do go the other way in some cases, like the World Trade Center, there were many victims and it is one place to memorialize them all and remind people and a big event in history.

If we think about the Closs case once. Would JC want her family's home on a State Highway to have a marker that that is where they were murdered/died? Maybe one day with it demolished, it could be a park with a bench with their names. Not even sure she would ever want that. It is not up to the well meaning public as these commissioners said. JC right now apparently never wants to see it again nor probably the land either but that is who it should be up to, if they have a say.

I think what you shared above by these commissioners puts it better than I ever could state it. This child was only in this park in this county, etc. because a monster of a woman likely killed this baby and took her there or killed her there. It is not where she lived, it is not a happy place for children or for anyone to remember that...

Let her loved loved ones decide and not now, but in time, grief takes time and decisions should not be made immediately sometimes but again that is jmo.

Don't know if I put what I meant clearly but just my opinion for sure and trying to show how torn people can be on this.

I don't know that I would ever want to take my grandchildren to a park named for where a child perhaps was murdered, hidden and that memorialized the murder. However, I would take them to an area city park where she enjoyed going with a parent or parents or even a grandparent with a bench in her name or even the park in her name and where she had happy times at her young age and to give other children happy times with a children's park.

Definitely just my longwinded opinion... I think these commissioners said it far better than I. In summary, I agree with what they said.

Jmho.

Good points

 

[Steelslady]

If I were to be completely honest, as a mother myself- I truly would not want the park named after my child, if she had been found deceased there.

We're not talking about a little darling dying of cancer and they honor her by renaming a park in her memory, because she loved and played softball.

We're talking about this poor baby girl was dumped in her car seat and not found for a few days. As a parent, I probably would never want to go to the park again. It would upset and anger me.

If they wanted to build a playground in her honor elsewhere in that city/town, and her parents were ok with it, then fine.

Just my own thoughts, and I respect others for theirs.

 

[NYatheart]

Regarding the Sheetz in Monroeville vs Murrysville, it’s probably one & the same they are talking about. I live in one of those two listed places & they frequently say one name when its address is really in the other. There are two other Sheetz in Monroeville that she would have passed if she took 22 from Rodi Road, and I’m sure they all have cameras in them.

What a sick, horrible person she is.

 

[CCJD]

Regarding the Sheetz in Monroeville vs Murrysville, it’s probably one & the same they are talking about. I live in one of those two listed places & they frequently say one name when its address is really in the other. There are two other Sheetz in Monroeville that she would have passed if she took 22 from Rodi Road, and I’m sure they all have cameras in them.

What a sick, horrible person she is.

The news actually specified 4701 Wllm Penn Hwy, Murrysville (at the intersection with School Rd).
MISSING GIRL: Police seeking information on Nalani Johnson's car seat, vehicle seen near Murrysville Sheetz
The one at 22 and Elliot Rd and the one across from Duff Rd are both in Monroeville and the one closest to Rodi Rd (Buffalo Wild Wings is in there, too) is in Wilkins Twp.

 

[NYatheart]

The news actually specified 4701 Wllm Penn Hwy, Murrysville (at the intersection with School Rd).
MISSING GIRL: Police seeking information on Nalani Johnson's car seat, vehicle seen near Murrysville Sheetz
The one at 22 and Elliot Rd and the one across from Duff Rd are both in Monroeville and the one closest to Rodi Rd (Buffalo Wild Wings is in there, too) is in Wilkins Twp.

Lol, see that’s exactly what I mean. I live here & I would have thought that the one near Buffalo Wild Wings would have been considered Monroeville. Pittsburgh is a confusing place!

 

[CCJD]

Lol, see that’s exactly what I mean. I live here & I would have thought that the one near Buffalo Wild Wings would have been considered Monroeville. Pittsburgh is a confusing place!

BBM

Yes, it is.

I frequent the Home Depot (more than I should) which is Wilkins even though you can practically throw a rock at Best Buy, which is Monroeville.