Who is Justin Williams ( Ex-boyfriend charged with chopping up Brooklyn woman ) Wiki, Bio, Age, Crime, Arrest, Incident Details, Investigations and More Facts
A man suspected of chopping his ex-girlfriend to pieces with a hatchet and then hiding parts of her body in his luggage in Brooklyn has been living with her dismembered body for a month, authorities said Monday.
Justin Williams, 24, of Harlem, used towels and cleaning supplies to cover up the smell emanating from two suitcases at the home of his murdered ex D'Asia Johnson, 22, prosecutors say in new court documents .
Williams was charged on Monday with the murder and concealment of a human body and accused of raping the horrific murder of Johnson, 22, whose remains were discovered on September 21 by officers carrying out a social check at her home of Cypress Hills, law enforcement officials said.
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During his subpoena in Brooklyn Superior Court on Monday, he was ordered to be held without bond.
Williams stabbed Johnson nine times, five in the chest and four in the back, authorities said.
He then dismembered her body and stuffed it into suitcases, Brooklyn prosecutors said.
The sick woman accused lived in her apartment with her dismembered body for weeks, prosecutors added.
In an October interview with Brooklyn detectives, Williams waived her right to remain silent and admitted to killing Johnson and dismembering her body, according to court documents.
During the initial police investigation, pools of blood were discovered in the victim's apartment on Linwood Street, and parts of Johnson's body were later found in suitcases in the apartment.
Before Johnson's dismembered body was found, concerned building guards tried to check on her because she had not been seen in a week, officers said.
Williams dismissed the guards at the gate, then fled before police arrived and found the scene frightening, police said.
Neighbors later told the Post that Johnson had long been violently abused by her ex-boyfriend - and sources said she had obtained a protective order against him to no avail.
"For two years he beat her, destroyed her apartment, broke her legs, broke her ribs," neighbor Stephanie Harris said. "Her mother complained, 'I want to get her out of this building. She's going to die eventually, please get her out of this building. "No one wants to listen.
Earlier last month, Williams was named as a person of interest in Johnson's murder.
In addition to naming Williams in a public hearing at the time, prosecutors said his current girlfriend used his murdered ex's federal card to make purchases in New York after his murder.
Ten days after Johnson's remains were discovered, Williams was sent to Nassau County to face two counts of bail, police said.
In those Nassau cases, Williams was wanted on a failed second-degree assault charge for allegedly punching a 66-year-old man in Freeport in June 2021 and suspected of selling nearly $1,200 worth of merchandise in June 2020. Stealing dollars from a Westbury Walgreens.
According to an indictment, Williams did not appear in court on April 25 in those cases, and an arrest warrant was issued on May 11.
He was held on bail with $125,000 related to the jump, a decision that kept him in jail while NYPD investigators continue to investigate Johnson's murder, law enforcement sources noted.
Investigators picked up Williams in Nassau County, LI and took him to Brooklyn's 75th Precinct, where he was charged Monday.
Last month, police also released photos of five women and a man who they say are wanted "as witnesses in connection" to the gruesome Brooklyn murder. The surveillance photos were "obtained from the crash site", police said.
Police said on Monday they had spoken to those they were looking for for interviews in the case and no one else had been charged in the murder.
Williams faces a life sentence if convicted.
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