9/23/2022
RawNews1st – The family of the domestic violence victim who was hacked up and stuffed in suitcases in her Brooklyn apartment recalled the young woman as a “loving” aspiring teacher as they questioned why the building’s staff didn’t do more to protect her.
The aunt of Dasia Johnson, 22, criticized the security guards at the Linwood Street apartment building for not prohibiting her abusive boyfriend from entering the location after witnesses saw him beating her in the hallways and the police were called numerous times, according to neighbors.
“They dropped the ball here,” the aunt, who declined to share her name, said by phone.
Johnson also had an active restraining order against her boyfriend and he’d previously been arrested for coming to the apartment in March to pick up his belongings, law-enforcement sources said.
“They know their tenants. They opened the door for him,” the aunt added. “She didn’t have no other boyfriend.
They didn’t do enough. They could have prevented him from coming in there… They’re security, they’re trained to put somebody down. There is ways to stop him from coming in.”
Johnson’s aunt said she asked the building’s security guards on Wednesday to conduct a wellness check after her phone had been off — and when they arrived, the woman’s boyfriend and another man were in the unit and refused to let the guards in.
The guards left to call police and in the meantime, the two men managed to slip away.
“The next thing I hear, a detective calls me and tells me it’s a crime scene now,” the aunt recalled.
“They let them just walk out [after the wellness check]. There is 24 hour security in the building.”
Police entered the unit and found a scene that neighbors described as being from a horror movie, with the woman’s body in two suitcases, her bathtub stained with blood and a meat cleaver nearby.
At the time of Johnson’s tragic death, the young woman had been working hard to get her life together and was well on her way, her heartbroken aunt said.
“Dasia was a loving, full of life girl. She was working [at Macy’s], she wanted to finish school. She wanted to be a teacher,” the aunt said.
“She was in school, she was working. She was well loved.
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