Crime Scene Looks Like A Horror Film, Woman Killed & Chopped Up

Officers in Brooklyn said a blood splattered crime scene, where a young woman was chopped with a meat cleaver and stuffed in two suitcases, looked like something you’d only see in a horror movie.

“When I noticed what was going on, I went down to the apartment to ask the detective, and he opened the door and it was like something in a movie, not something you see in real life,” neighbor Stephanie Harris, who was friends with the victim said about the gruesome scene. “Blood everywhere, pints of blood. It was nasty. You can imagine what happened to her, you know she fought for her life. There was blood splattered literally everywhere.”

The remains of what could be distinguished of the 22- year old victim, identified as Dasia Johnson by relatives, were found on Wednesday after two security guards made a wellness check at the apartment at the request of a local nonprofit program for abused women.

Johnson hadn’t been seen for a week and by Sunday, neighbors began smelling a foul odor on the floor where she lived. 

“First we thought it was the garbage chute, the super was like ‘No, I cleaned it,’ then for three days the smell, it just got worse,” said Harris. 

“Everybody on my floor started looking for a rat, for a mouse, that came into the pipes or whatever and he just died.”

When security guards showed up at the apartment, they were turned away by Johnson’s apparent boyfriend, who fled before cops arrived. 

They later gained access to the unit and immediately saw “blood all over the place” and called police, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said Thursday. 

Neighbors said the tragic woman had long been violently abused by her boyfriend, who is considered a person of interest in the slaying and is the subject of a police manhunt. 

“She used to say that he used to slam her head in the house, like ‘Why you got people in our business,’ he used to break stuff in the house, she would say, ‘It’s not your money,’ and he would say ‘I don’t give a f-ck, you’re mine, so everything that belongs to you is mine,’” Harris recalled. 

She said neighbors frequently heard the man making the same chilling threat over and over again, “The only way you out is when your mother gonna bury you, b–ch.” 

“He always said it in the hallway, we always heard it,” Harris said. “And you felt it.”

Another neighbor, who declined to share their name, said they once saw blood coming from Johnson’s apartment. 

“I just came home from work, I get upstairs and I see an entire blood trail, lots and lots of blood, just trailing from her apartment to the front door. Downstairs they’re arguing, fighting,” the neighbor recalled. “Around a week or two ago, I heard commotion, a lot of fighting, and since then, nothing.”

Harris, who is a domestic violence survivor, recalled how terrified Johnson was. 

“He used to always come, we’d hear him banging on the door trying to get in. Once he locked her out of her own apartment. She leaves for a couple of weeks because she’s scared for her life,” Harris said. “She said a couple of weeks ago, ‘I’m tired of looking over my shoulder.’ She was going to work one day and she got in the cab and looked back because she’s so scared.”

Johnson’s aunt said her niece tried to leave her boyfriend “numerous times” and as recently as August 16. She even talked about her plans to get away during a dinner party with family. 

“She was happy. She told us, ‘I’m done with him.’ If she would have told us the full extent of the abuse, we were able to help her, if we knew more,” the aunt said. 

“It’s just so sad. She was so skinny. This boy overpowered her. He was leeching off of her. He was using her kindness. Her mother is terminally ill and she needed a friend, and she thought that he was that friend.”

“We want justice for Dasia. We want this boy found. That is why we are asking to put his picture out to the public. The public needs to be made aware of who he is. That’s why he’s so hard to pinpoint, nobody has his picture,” she said. 

“This is really hard. She was a victim. She was full of life. I was trying to help her. I tried to step in. I pretty much raised her most of her life. I heard of one incident between them and I told her, ‘This is not love. It’s not going to get any better. It will only get worse.’”