Court Watching: Suspect arraigned for 2021 murder of woman in Westlake apartment

John Brian Green-Johnson, 32, with a Detroit address, was arraigned by 34th Court Magistrate Al Hindman on March 23 on a charge of homicide-open murder and felony firearm in the death of a Van Buren Township woman on May 9, 2021.
He was arraigned by zoom while in custody at the Van Buren Township Police Department. Bond was denied and he was remanded to the Wayne County Jail. A probable cause conference was set for April 5.
He originally was arrested on May 9, 2021, said Van Buren Township Detective Dale Harrison. In 2021, he was charged federally for a weapons offense, a parole violation, and sentenced to serve two years jail time. He was then extradicted back to Michigan for the Van Buren Township murder case. Wayne County issued the murder warrant while he was in federal custody, Det. Harrison said.
The defendant had previous addresses in Westlake Circle in Van Buren Township and in Romulus.
Also on March 23, Magistrate Hindman arraigned Green-Johnson on a bench warrant for failure to appear at a 2021 court session on a charge of domestic violence-aggravated assault in Romulus on Feb. 8, 2020. The pretrial on the bench warrant also is set for April 5.
On Sunday, May 9, 2021 at about 4 p.m., the Van Buren Township Police Department began receiving information regarding a potential homicide that occurred within the township.
VBT Police Chief Jason Wright said after many steps and much investigation, the body of 29-year-old Amber Nicole King was found in a storage unit in the City of Westland.
Chief Wright said police determined that a suspect had shot a female in an apartment at the Westlake Apartments. The female victim’s identity was unknown initially and her body had been moved. However, officers had a suspect’s name.
Chief Wright said officers were able to locate the scene of the homicide at Westlake. A search warrant was obtained and VBT Police requested the assistance of the Michigan State Police Forensic Unit to process the apartment.
Further investigation led VBT Police to Monroe County where the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department located and arrested a male suspect, who was a VBT resident. Acting on information, Van Buren detectives subsequently executed a search warrant on a storage unit in the City of Westland where the female victim was found.
The victim was a 2011 graduate of Belleville High School. She was survived by a son and many relatives in the Belleville area.