NEW YORK – NYPD is seeking to question six possible witnesses in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old Brooklyn woman whose dismembered remains were found in suitcases in her apartment after authorities conducted a welfare check at the end of last month. authority.
No arrests have been made at this time for the murder of D’Asia Johnson, who lived on Linwood Street in East New York. Authorities said they were trying to question her boyfriend.
They posted photos over the weekend of five women and a man who they said could be witnesses to the case.
Johnson’s confirmed remains were discovered on Sept. 21 when building security went to check on her sixth-floor apartment after not seeing her for about a month, law enforcement sources said. At the time, a senior NYPD official said the security team had found someone believed to be his boyfriend.
That man wouldn’t let them in, the senior official said, and security said they would call the police to gain access. He and another man left the apartment after security officers moved in, the building’s surveillance video showed. One of the men was carrying a black bag, the senior NYPD official said. The security officer saw them leave and went back to the apartment.
The remains of a woman were found in suitcases in a New York building. Rafael Pujols gives us the report.
It was then that they encountered a scene of terror – blood in the bathtub, a butcher knife and a horrible smell – and called the emergency health services, the senior NYPD official said at our sister station NBC 4 New. York.
Investigators got a search warrant for the apartment. Inside were found two suitcases with apparent human remains. It was not clear if there was a whole body. News 12 reported in the Bronx that an autopsy showed she had been stabbed to death.
Police don’t believe it was a random attack and the search for Johnson’s boyfriend continues. The senior NYPD official claims he has an active protection order against him.
A neighbor who lives on the sixth floor told NBC New York that he regularly heard the commotion from the apartment where the bags were found and that the police had been there multiple times.
“A lot of fights. Arguments, as I said,” said the neighbor who only gave his name, Jeremy. “You hear arguments, bangs, loud stuff, normal stuff. But you can’t, like I said, if you try to interrupt and stuff like that, you’re running into a problem you can’t solve.”
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