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A Milwaukee man has been charged in connection to a homicide that resulted in a woman being found dead inside a garbage cart on Dec. 2.The victim was later identified as 40-year-old Myeisha Moore.The Milwaukee Police Department arrested 57-year-old Johnny Williams on Jan. 6. Prosecutors have charged him with first-degree intentional homicide as party to a crime.According to the complaint, on Dec. 2, just before 10:45 a.m., two people who were hired to work on a home near 39th and Lloyd streets found Moore’s body in the garbage cart in an alley. One of the workers then called police. While they were talking to police, one of the workers showed police a picture of the alley from Dec. 1 at 1:42 p.m. The picture revealed that the garbage cart that Moore was found in was not there before Dec. 2.Detectives noted that Moore was wearing a tan coat when she was found. They could also smell what appeared to be gasoline from the garbage cart. Blood and garbage bags were also found inside the garbage cart. A piece of mail that belonged to an address one block east of where Moore was found was discovered inside the garbage cart. A Bacardi rum bottle was also found inside, which was examined for fingerprints. The fingerprints also belonged to someone who lived near 37th and Brown streets. Detectives then confirmed that the garbage cart Moore was found in belonged to an address from 37th and Brown.On Dec. 2, detectives visited the last known address of Moore near 36th and Lloyd streets. The man they spoke with refused to identify himself, but told them Moore had a room there and would come and go. Police later had to obtain a search warrant to search the property. 12 people were determined to have lived at the property as a “rooming house.” The house was considered to be in a state of disarray. All 12 were interviewed by police. They later confirmed Moore was indeed staying there. The last time anyone saw her alive was Dec. 1.The complaint says Williams was one of the 12 people interviewed at the house, but lied to police about his identity at the time. He previously told police a brother of his owned the house and that he would check in on the residents to make sure they were OK. He also told police he last saw Moore wearing a tan coat.Police obtained surveillance video that showed Williams, Moore and another person leaving 36th and Lloyd around 6:51 p.m. on Dec. 1, according to the complaint. They were heading west on Lloyd before turning south on 37th Street. Six minutes later, Williams could be seen wheeling the cart believed to be containing Moore’s body into the alley near 39th and Lloyd. In that six minutes, Moore was shot three times and put into the garbage cart. Williams then walked back to 36th and Lloyd. Less than an hour later, someone tried to light the garbage cart on fire. The third person, who was not named, in the surveillance video was interviewed by detectives and identified one of the other two people as Johnny Williams. According to the complaint, this person told detectives he had nothing to do with Moore and did not know what happened to her, but that she was at the house he was familiar with near 36th and Lloyd.The garbage cart remained there until the two workers discovered Moore’s body on Dec. 2.Williams told detectives that he would visit 36th and Lloyd a few times a day in an interview on Jan. 6, according to the complaint. He also admitted to leaving the building with Moore and another person on Dec. 1. Williams also told detectives that he was the one in the surveillance video moving the garbage cart, but claimed there was no body inside at the time.The complaint did not give a motive for the shooting.