Credit: Sheldon Johnson/Facebook
An ex-con turned criminal justice reform activist and acquaintance of Alvin Bragg is facing murder charges after cops make a particularly gruesome discovery.
As the New York Post reported, Sheldon Johnson, a 48-year-old employee of the public law firm Queens Defenders, was arrested and charged with murder Thursday after cops found a dismembered body inside a sixth-floor Bronx apartment. This included a severed head hidden in a refrigerator and a human torso in a blue box.
Johnson was captured on surveillance video at the crime scene posing in a blonde wig.
The victim has been identified as 44-year-old Colin Small. Police say he first met Johnson while they were both serving time at Sing Sing Prison in Westchester County, and they may have had an ongoing feud with the suspect.
Here is a chronology of events according to the post:
Neighbors told cops that the victim was heard desperately pleading with his killer shortly before two shots rang out in the apartment near Odgen Avenue and West 162nd Street shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The distressed man was heard saying: “Please don't do that.” “I have a family!”
The building's supervisor said investigators were first called to the building to conduct a health check after gunshots were heard, and neighbors reported seeing a stranger coming and going from the apartment with cleaning supplies.
“I said, ‘Listen, I want to do a welfare check on the tenant because the person coming in and out is not the tenant,’” the super, who requested to remain anonymous, told The Post on Wednesday.
The Post says Johnson was seen bringing in a blue trash can at 2 a.m., but never took it out.
Johnson left in the victim's blue Audi and returned in an Uber wearing a blonde wig, the supervisor said. Police also searched the apartment but left without initially arresting Johnson.
Johnson was released from prison in 2019 after serving 20 years for a series of armed robberies in 1999. He then began working as a client attorney in the Queens public defender's office.
While in the district attorney's office, he also met Manhattan Marxist Alvin Bragg, with whom he shared his defense of lawbreakers.
Instead of expressing remorse for his actions, the ex-con complained about how unfair his prison sentence was during an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast last month and criticized the criminal justice system as a whole. Rogan agreed with Johnson all along.
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Last month, Joe Rogan hosted “prison reform activist” Sheldon Johnson to discuss the injustices of the American justice system.
Johnson had just gotten out after serving a 25-year prison sentence.
He explained how unfair it was that he was sent to prison for all this time, and Joe… pic.twitter.com/0iW5AKqEdU
– Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) March 7, 2024
