A former criminal and former gang member who became a “criminal justice activist” arrested on suspicion of murder After police found dismembered body parts in a New York City apartment.
New York City police said Tuesday that they found a torso and severed arm in a sixth-floor apartment in the Bronx, where they were responding to a welfare call around 8:25 p.m.
After serving a search warrant, they found the victim’s head and feet in the freezer.
Police identified the man as 44-year-old Colin Small and said he was shot in the head.
Police believe prominent criminal justice activist Sheldon Johnson, 48, killed the victim in her Bronx apartment, dismembered her body, and took the body parts to a ninth-floor apartment in Harlem. ing.
A neighbor told police he heard gunshots coming from the apartment, followed by someone yelling, “Stop, I have a family!” before two more gunshots were heard. according to According to a police report obtained by The New York Times.
Police also spoke with a building manager who said he saw the man entering and exiting the apartment multiple times, changing his clothes. He also left with a blue plastic storage box on wheels.
“I don’t know who this guy is, but I thought he was coming in and out with a key as if he owned this place,” the superintendent said.
Johnson called police, and when police arrived and knocked on the door, Johnson opened the door, the report said. Police proceeded to take the man into custody after confirming that he was the same man who had been in and out of the apartment.
“You have to change your life.”
The criminal activist previously served 25 years in prison for charges including attempted murder. He promoted his story when he was a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, saying he was determined to turn his life around after becoming a free man.
“At that moment, I really said, ‘I have to change my life, I have to change my life,’ and I can’t do that,” Johnson told Logan. “I had a wife, I had kids, I still had a family, my son was growing up. He was hearing stories about my so-called notoriety. I didn’t want to be that father. is.”
Johnson is charged with murder, manslaughter and weapons possession.
“I’m innocent!” he shouted as he was put into the back seat of a police car.
Johnson’s employer, Queen’s Defenders, declined to comment on his arrest.
“It feels like the devil has crawled through here,” one neighbor said of the allegations.
Here are local reports about the arrest:
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