A Manhattan man was sentenced to 26 years to life behind bars on Wednesday for chopping up his ex-girlfriend with a meat cleaver and dwelling along with her dismembered corpse in her Brooklyn house for a month.
Justin Williams, 27, discovered his destiny in Brooklyn Supreme Courtroom for hacking his 22-year-old ex, D’Asia Johnson, to demise inside her East New York house on Aug. 21, 2022.
Williams, of Harlem, stabbed Johnson a number of instances in her torso and again — then dismembered her physique with a meat cleaver and stashed her chopped-up stays in rubbish luggage contained in the house for almost a month, prosecutors stated.
The maniac even used towels and cleansing merchandise to masks the scent of her decomposing stays and left all of the home windows open within the house as her household desperately looked for her, cops stated.
Williams continued dwelling in Johnson’s house and impersonated her to name out of labor so she may proceed receiving paychecks — utilizing the money to deliver prostitutes to the house.
The killer additionally used his slain ex-girlfriend’s public advantages to purchase himself meals and introduced his adolescent son to the house as her stays decomposed close by.
Williams continued to attempt to conceal Johnson’s demise from her involved household, along with her stays solely found after suspicious constructing personnel carried out a wellness verify and contacted police.
The pair had beforehand been in a romantic relationship for a number of years, throughout which Williams repeatedly abused her, prosecutors added.
Johnson was a protected social gathering underneath an order of safety requiring him to keep away from her through the time of the heinous homicide.
Williams was convicted of a slew of fees throughout a June jury trial, together with second-degree homicide, concealment of a human corpse, fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree legal possession of stolen property, second-degree legal impersonation, and fifth-degree welfare fraud.
“D’Asia Johnson suffered horrific violence by the hands of this defendant, who then compounded that cruelty with conduct that confirmed a staggering disregard for her life, her dignity, and the family members desperately trying to find her,” Brooklyn District Legal professional Eric Gonzalez stated in an announcement.
“He has now been held accountable for that horrific brutality, and I hope D’Asia’s household can discover some measure of solace and justice in at the moment’s sentence.”
