June 12, 2026
Former senior facility executive sued for getting money from resident’s trust
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. – A former senior living facility executive is facing another lawsuit months after he was criminally charged for theft.
FOX13 told you about 57-year-old Timothy Johnson in December, when he was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and theft over $10,000 for allegedly stealing from the rooms of residents at StoryPoint Collierville.
Wednesday, FOX13 obtained a lawsuit filed by another family who said Johnson wrongfully obtained money from a family trust.
“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does,” said attorney Kevin Snider, who is representing the family of Marvin Ford.
The lawsuit alleges Johnson befriended Ford, who lived at StoryPoint. It said that relationship eventually led to Johnson receiving money. It said in part, “Johnson requested and/or started receiving a self-described ‘stipend’ from the Plaintiff in February of 2022 and continuing thereafter until early 2025.”
Allegedly, there were 25 different checks from Ford’s trust totaling about $20,000. The lawsuit also claims Johnson and several unnamed employees “began taking various trips — including to Hot Springs, Arkansas, with Mr. Ford — and paid with the assets of the Trust.”
“We believe there’s got to be several, if not more, employees of Story Point that were involved in this process, because it got to the point where Mr. Johnson and/or the employees were taking these trips on the dime of the resident to Hot Springs. They were staying in his room,” Snider told FOX13.
When Ford died in 2025, beneficiaries of his trust thought they’d be the only ones getting payments, but Snider said Johnson was also added as a beneficiary to the trust to receive 15 percent of the payout.
A family member of Ford sent an email to StoryPoint’s owners, writing, “I am just trying to find out if you have a company policy that would prevent me from paying a manager a monthly stipend and include the manager in my will.” The response, in part, said, “I don’t see an issue with that. Residents can give whomever they want their money — by the way, this is very kind of you.”
“That’s why they sent the email to question it before they cut the final check of over $400,000. And to get that type of response from corporate, they’re thinking, ‘Well, we have to do it, because that’s what the trust said after Mr. Johnson was added to it,'” said Snider.
Snider said Johnson was also gifted a car but later traded in that car for a new one shortly after the trust payment.
Snider spoke to FOX13 in December about his own issues with StoryPoint and Johnson.
He said his mother lived there, and Snider filed his own suits against the business over her care and for taking money from his personal account, which he said was later repaid.
Snider said he doesn’t think this family is the last to be victimized by Johnson, “The amount of money involved continues to grow, not by thousands of dollars, but by hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, and this needs to stop. And a message needs to be sent not only to Mr. Johnson and whoever he was working with out there, but to StoryPoint that this is not ok.”
Ford’s family is seeking $5 million in damages.
In a statement, a spokesperson for StoryPoint told FOX13, “Given the ongoing investigation around this matter, we are unable to provide additional details at this time. The safety and well-being of our residents continue to be our highest priority and central to our mission.”
