by Travis Mateer
After the 1-3-20 assault that put Sean Stevenson into a coma and on life support in a St. Patrick’s hospital room, the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, acting as coroner, had Sean Stevenson REMOVED from the machines keeping him alive, ending his life. The family of Sean Stevenson was told their family member was dead AFTER his life was snuffed out by the Sheriff’s Office.
How could this have possibly happened, and why? Five years later, answers to those basic questions are STILL not forthcoming, despite my one-man effort to get those answers and expose the fuckers who think they can extinguish a life and NOT be held accountable for it.
Before Johnny Lee Perry was executed by that same Sheriff’s Office in August of 2021, I spoke with Johnny about what happened that night. Since the extensive bruising on Sean’s body indicated MORE than just a “rear-naked chokehold” was involved in the assault and, I suspect, more than one person, I told Johnny I didn’t think he was solely responsible for Sean’s death. When I told Johnny about the bruising on Sean’s body, he said a police officer told him that first responders had dropped Sean off the gurney when they loaded him into the ambulance.
If Johnny was in fact told that, then he was lied to. I have seen the autopsy pictures of Sean’s body myself, and it’s NOT just the bruising that indicates something other than the official story happened. There are other strange marks that have never been explained.
When I posted the following footage of Johnny acting strangely and making threats toward law enforcement, I knew there could be dire consequences. I even spoke with Sean’s family about the possibility that this footage would lead to something bad happening. A little over two weeks later, Johnny was shot in the back by the Sheriff’s Office.
I attended the charade known as the Coroner’s Inquest and watched Justin White explain the plan to neutralize Johnny with non-lethal shots then, if that didn’t work, they would be able to use LETHAL force. You see, all these men with guns were apparently SCARED that Johnny might have tweaker friends with guns hiding in the tweaker trailers out in the woods where Jackie Maxvill had taken Johnny, given him drugs and the machete, then called his daughter and told HER to call 911.
If you think this fear was legitimate, then the image below might make more sense to you, but I don’t think that fear was legitimate. No, I think that fear was part of a STRATEGY to execute Johnny in order to stop him from talking to people like me about what happened to Sean Stevenson on the evening of January 3rd, 2020, in the men’s dorm of the Poverello Center.
Or, perhaps I’m wrong and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office really IS comprised of a bunch of punk-ass bitches who are TERRIFIED of scrawny drug addicts like Johnny, despite the fact the badges had guns and Johnny had a machete.
This will be a short post today because I have my final pre-trial hearing this morning before my January 8th trial, which should be pretty interesting. I’m especially interested to hear how law enforcement explains a few things about my arrest on April 15th.
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