New York City police announced on Sunday that a “person of interest” in the early morning death of a person believed to have snuck onto a stable subway station before being purposefully lit on fire by a guy she didn’t know was being held in custody. Three high school students who recognized the assume reported him to the transport authorities who apprehended him. They had seen the suspect’s photos taken from police body cam video and distributed frequently by police. New Yorkers” came through again,” according to New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who described the incident as “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being.” The suspect and the lady, both of whom have not been identified, were riding a train station in Brooklyn at around 7:30 a.m. when the coach came to a halt, according to surveillance videos from the subway car, and arranged her clothes on blaze with what appeared to be a lighter. The woman’s clothing then “became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds”, Tisch said. The two were not known to one another, according to the police. Officers on a routine patrol at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station discovered the woman on fire, standing in the middle of the car after they smelled and saw the smoke. After the fire was extinguished, emergency medical personnel declared the woman dead at the scene. The suspect had remained at the scene and was seated on a bench on the subway platform, just outside the train car, according to Tisch. Body cameras worn by the officers caught a “very clear, detailed look” at the suspect and those images were publicly disseminated. Other transit officers later identified the man on another subway train after receiving a 911 call from the teenagers, radioed ahead to the next station, where more officers searched each car, searched each car, and ultimately apprehended him without incident, according to Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta. When the man was taken into custody, a lighter was in his pocket, Tisch said. Trending Now
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Gulotta stated that the investigation was advancing, including the suspect’s history and whether the victim was homeless. The incident occurred on Sunday in a New York subway system for the second time. Police arrived at the 61st Street-Woodside Station in Queens at 12:35 a.m. to respond to an emergency call for an assault in progress and discovered a 37-year-old man with a stab wound to his torso and a 26-year-old man with multiple slashes throughout his body. According to police, the older man was declared dead at a nearby hospital, while the younger man was still there. An investigation was continuing. New York Gov. Following a number of high-profile crimes committed on city trains this year, Kathy Hochul has sent New York National Guard members to the city’s subway system to assist police in conducting random searches of passengers ‘ bags for weapons. In order to assist with patrol during the holiday season, Hochul recently deployed additional members. According to Michael Kemper, chief security officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Hochul supported funding about a year ago to install video cameras on every train car in the New York subway system. On Sunday, he and other officials credited the cameras with assisting in the suspect’s swift identification. &, copy 2024 The Canadian Press
