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Lisette Johnson remembers telling her husband she was leaving him in July of 2009.
“He said he was going to kill me if I ever leave him,” she told VPM News. “Your rational mind says, ‘How likely is that to happen? I don’t have broken bones or anything.’”
He shot her several times, with their children around, before killing himself.
Nearly 15 years later, Johnson reflected on the warning signs that may have appeared before her shooting. “The potential for controlling behavior is more indicative of the potential for lethal violence than physical abuse,” she said.
BizSense Beat: Lawsuit erupts for Dixie Restaurant former, current owners
BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.
This week, Mike Platania and Lyndon German discuss a lawsuit relating to the sale of a Petersburg restaurant — that may end up costing the former owners a significant sum.
Charles and Frances Rawlings, who owned and operated Dixie Restaurant for years, sold it in 2024 to Dylan and Savannah Yeargin for an agreed $250,000 payable in weekly, $1,000 installments.
But the written contract listed the seller as “Dixie Restaurant, Inc.” — a corporation that doesn’t actually exist — rather than its true legal form, “Dixie Restaurant, LLC.”