The name of a 34-year-old man killed last year in Fort Myers has surfaced in documents at the center of a federal investigation into police corruption.

Victor Lamar Johnson, of Fort Myers, was found dead in a silver Nissan Maxima with gunshot wounds on May 23, 2016. But the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

Documents released last week confirmed that federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption coming out of the Fort Myers Police Department. They also implicate at least one deputy with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

Though heavily censored, those documents shed more light on law enforcement’s alleged involvement with a drug trafficking ring known for killing witnesses, including protection from FMPD and LCSO.

In between blacked-out text, it says, “…Victor Johnson … hired by … to kill … Johnson … was murdered.”

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Fort Myers police incident reports from Johnson's death show Officer Matthew Zarillo responded to a call of shots fired in the area of Blake Street and Cranford Avenue around 10:20 a.m. Parts of that report were censored due to the ongoing criminal investigation.

But according to news reports from that day, police found a black Dodge pickup abandoned at an apartment complex on Metro Parkway. Witnesses saw the same truck fleeing south on Cranford Avenue shortly after the shooting.

Johnson’s mother, Victoria, now lives in Louisiana. She said police never gave her the full story.

“I had a lot of questions about a lot of things, but no answers,” she said, adding the entire situation never seemed quite right.

She said her son’s wife, Lavola, is the niece of Capt. Melvin Perry, who is one of four FMPD members placed on administrative leave the same day the Freeh Report was released.

She declined to comment further. Lavola Johnson was reached by phone but declined to comment.

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The Freeh Report confirmed heavy-handed policing in the city’s minority communities, and revealed allegations of officers tipping off drug dealers to impending search warrants. It was based on anonymous interviews between Fort Myers police officers and members of Freeh Group International Solutions, a Delaware-based consulting firm.

As part of that report, the Freeh Group created “Appendix A” and “Appendix B” and never released them to the public. Appendix A outlines the corruption and botched internal affairs investigations, while Appendix B deals with a drug trafficking ring that was operating with near impunity, even killing witnesses.

The Fort Myers City Council paid Freeh Group International Solutions $150,000 to perform the audit in May 2016.

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Johnson appears to have been involved, at least in part, with this drug trafficking ring, as his name was found on Appendix B. His background includes multiple run-ins with police and several years in the prison system.

In 1999, at the age of 17, Johnson was arrested for armed robbery and grand theft auto. He was sentenced to four years in prison and released in November 2003.

A few months later, he was arrested for aggravated battery, but that charge was dropped. He was arrested again for second-degree murder in May 2004 and sentenced to six years in prison. After his release from prison in October 2011, he had a couple more arrests for driving with a suspended license.

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