A person suspected of chopping up his ex-girlfriend with a meat cleaver after which stashing her physique elements in baggage in Brooklyn lived together with her dismembered corpse for a month, authorities stated Monday.
Justin Williams, 24, of Harlem used towels and cleansing merchandise to masks the scent coming from the 2 suitcases on the residence of his slain ex, D’Asia Johnson, 22, prosecutors stated in new courtroom papers.
He additionally left all of the home windows open within the condo, cops stated.
Williams was indicted and charged Monday with homicide and concealment of a human corpse raps within the grisly slaying of Johnson, 22, whose stays had been found by cops conducting a wellness test at her Cypress Hills condo Sept. 21, legislation enforcement authorities stated.
He was ordered held with out bail at his arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Courtroom on Monday.
Williams stabbed Johnson 9 instances, knifing her 5 instances to the entrance of her torso and 4 instances to the again, authorities stated.
He then dismembered her physique and stuffed it within the suitcases, the Brooklyn District Legal professional’s Workplace stated.
The accused sicko lived in her condo together with her dismembered corpse for weeks, prosecutors added.

In an interview with Brooklyn detectives in October, Williams waived his proper to stay silent and admitted to killing Johnson and dismembering her corpse, based on courtroom paperwork.
Surveillance footage confirmed the pair coming and going from her condo between Aug. 17 and 21, police stated Monday.
Then Johnson labored her shift at a Queens Macy’s on Aug. 21, returned residence — and was by no means seen alive once more, cops stated.
“He has unique alternative into that condo after which after the twenty second, which we consider is the day the murder happens, we by no means see her once more,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig advised reporters Monday, referring to Williams and the sufferer.
“After the twenty second, Justin Williams’ new girlfriend reveals up,” Essig stated.
Throughout cops’ preliminary investigation, swimming pools of splattered blood had been found contained in the sufferer’s Linwood Avenue condo, and Johnson’s physique elements had been later discovered within the suitcases on the condo.
Earlier than Johnson’s dismembered corpse was discovered, involved constructing safety guards tried to test on her as a result of she hadn’t been seen in every week, cops stated.
Williams turned the guards away on the door — after which ran off earlier than cops confirmed up and located the ugly scene, police stated.

Neighbors later advised The Submit that Johnson had lengthy been violently abused by her ex-beau — and sources stated she had gotten an order of safety towards him, to no avail.
“For 2 years he [was] beating on her, broke her condo down, broke her legs, broke her ribs,” neighbor Stephanie Harris stated. “Her mother was complaining, ‘I need to get her away from this constructing. She’s gonna find yourself lifeless, please get her away from this constructing.’ No one needs to hear.”
Early final month, Williams was named as an individual of curiosity in Johnson’s homicide.
Along with naming Williams in open courtroom on the time, prosecutors alleged that his present girlfriend used his slain ex’s federal advantages card for purchases in New York Metropolis — after her homicide.

Ten days after Johnson’s stays had been found, Williams was shipped to Nassau County to face two bail-jumping circumstances, police stated.
In these Nassau circumstances, Williams was searched for skipping out on a second-degree assault rap for allegedly slugging a 66-year-old man in Freeport in June 2021 and on fees accusing him of stealing almost $1,200 in merchandise from a Westbury Walgreens in June 2020.
Williams was allegedly a no-show in courtroom on these circumstances April 25, and a warrant was issued for his arrest Might 11, based on an indictment.
He was held on $125,000 in connection to the bail-jumping circumstances — a transfer that stored him locked up whereas NYPD detectives continued to analyze Johnson’s homicide, legislation enforcement sources famous.
Detectives picked up Williams from Nassau County, LI, and introduced him to Brooklyn’s seventy fifth Precinct, the place he was charged Monday.
Final month, cops additionally launched pictures of the 5 girls and one man who they stated “are being sought as witnesses in connection” to the grisly Brooklyn homicide. The surveillance pictures had been “obtained from the incident location,” cops stated.
Police stated Monday that they talked to the individuals being searched for interviews in regards to the case and that nobody else was being charged within the homicide.
Williams faces as much as life in jail if convicted.
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