Overview

• Police say the 20-year-old followed a woman from a bus onto the Fairview and University light-rail platform on Oct. 7 before striking her with a wooden table leg.
• Surveillance video described in the complaint shows him swinging the object like a baseball bat, delivering 21 additional blows and continuing for 17 seconds after she lost consciousness.
• A group of bystanders approached but did not physically intervene, and officers arrested Johnson nearby with blood on his hands after recovering the bloodied table leg on the platform walkway.
• The victim is recovering from a fractured skull, multiple fractures in her right arm, a concussion, and stapled head wounds, and she told police she did not know her attacker.
• Court records note Johnson also faces a separate pending assault charge from Sept. 14 near Government Plaza in Minneapolis, where a different woman reported being punched by a stranger.