Police Do A Welfare Check, Inside Find Torso of Man with No Head, Arms or Legs

The face, the look tells you a lot

 Neighbors told the Daily News " I thought he had reformed." Pictures are by the Daily News. These pictures were found on a cam in the hallway.

 Good Morning, Afternoon in certain areas to my dear readers.

I never like to start a day by posting current events, with local crime but this particular one brings a light to where I live and the mind of a criminal who after he allegedly committed this crime will be kept in jail for the rest of his life. Maybe he missed the controlled environment of incarceration but if he committed this crime his mind is really F*up. Why? Because not all crimes on a particular classification are alike. Not r Muder 1 or 2 are alike, but this guy if guilty did not want to get rid of all the evidence. It just so happened that the neighbors had not seen him and thought maybe happened to them. In New York, like in many places, there is a "welfare check".This is in case someone is dying or that needs help. Most but not all they find a body already in advance decomposition but not in this case. When the cops came in to do the welfare check they found a torso of a man inside the closet.

One of the aspects that this story caught my eye was who is the president of that apartment. This man has been a voice for criminal reforms for those incarcerated. Well with this find his voice is going to where the head, arms, and legs of this man went.

Adam Gonzalez

By AJ McDougal

Daily Beast

A Harlem man who became an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform and rehabilitation after being freed from prison last year was charged with murder on Thursday, according to New York police.

Sheldon Johnson Jr., 48, was also charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon after police found a headless torso and arms in his Bronx apartment while conducting a wellness check.

“I’m innocent!” According to the New York Daily News, Johnson yelled to reporters as he was led out of a stationhouse.

The remains were identified as that of Colin Small, 44. Police said Small was pronounced dead at the scene. His relationship with Johnson was not immediately clear. Still, law enforcement sources told the New York Post that the two may have had “a beef” dating back to their time together in Westchester County’s notorious Sing Sing prison.

Police said that neighbors in Johnson’s building had heard at least two gunshots coming from inside a sixth-floor apartment early Tuesday, followed by a man shouting, “Please don’t—I have a family.” Another two gunshots followed, they said.

Later on Tuesday morning, the neighbors informed the building’s superintendent later, who called 911. Police who arrived at the apartment that night were met by Johnson, who they took into custody soon after. They obtained a search warrant and discovered Small’s torso and foot inside a large blue bin. The other foot, as well as his arms, legs, and decapitated head, were found inside the apartment’s freezer, sources told the Daily News.

In 1999, Johnson was convicted of attempted murder, robbery, and other charges in a New York court. He was released from an upstate prison last May after spending 25 years behind bars, according to records obtained by The New York Times. He was subsequently hired as a counselor for at-risk youth with the Queens Defenders.

A spokesperson for the Queens Defenders declined to comment to The Daily Beast.

Johnson also appeared on a February episode of The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss his advocacy work and how he’d turned his life around while incarcerated. He claimed that he’d gone into prison as a high-ranking member of the Bloods, but began to untangle himself from his gang ties around 2005.

“I really said: I have to change my life. I have to change my life. I just can’t do this,” he explained. “I had a wife, I had kids, I had family still, my son was growing up. He was hearing stories of my so-called notoriety. I just didn’t want to be that dad.”

Civil rights attorney Josh Dubin, appearing alongside Johnson on the podcast, called him “a miracle.”

A representative for Rogan did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday night.