A man has been arrested in New York linked to the death of a woman who was burnt with an accelerant in a subway train in Brooklyn.
New York Police Department Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the case which occurred on Sunday one of the most dreadful crimes one person could ever commit against another person.
She said the woman who was caught on camera was on a stationary F train to Brooklyn when the man used lighter to set her clothes ablaze.
The victim succumbed to the injuries on the spot, she said further noting that the suspect had been nabbed later on Sunday after high school students tipped off the police as he rode the subway.
Police said the woman, who has not been named, was in a subway carriage at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn at about 07:30 local time 12:30 GMT when a man approached her.
The officers explained she was ‘’lifeless’’ when somebody poured and lit petrol on her but the detectives were still determining whether the victim was asleep.
Prior to the attack, the police said there was no communication between a man and a woman, and they seem to have no acquaintance.
The man alighted from the train as policemen on duty in the train station hurried to the fire.
“Some officers were on a platform on a higher floor of that station, sensing and seeing smoke, and approached to check,” Ms Tisch said.
“What they witnessed was someone, who was completely cremated within the train car,” Joe said.
The police are yet to know the identity of the deceased as well as the cause of the attack.
‘Unknown to the officers who had danced around the suspect, he did not leave the scene and was even seated on a bench on the platform outside the train car Ms Tisch contributed.
She said that police were then able to get a brief and clear view of the man from the body worn camera by the responding officers.
The depictions were published by the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Later, three teenagers, New Yorkers, said they’d called the police to report that they saw the suspect on another train, Ms Tisch said to journalists.
The man was then found after the police opened the train door and proceeded to move from one subway carriage to another.
He was arrested in the vicinity of the Herald Square Station – which is situated close to the Empire State building in Manhattan.
She said he was found with a lighter in his pocket though he could not have a lighter in his pocket a few hours earlier.
“I would like to say thank you to the youths who used 911 to get assistance,” the police commissioner concluded.
That was their guidelines which one could almost paraphrase as ‘They saw something, they said something and they did something.
The man, who was not named to the public, came to US from Guatemala in 2018, NYPD’s Joseph Gulotta stated.
Mr Gulotta said detectives have not clearly agreed on whether the victim was asleep when the incident occurred.
‘She’s certainly there, she isn’t moving,’ Mr Gulotta continued.
Well, we can’t be certain if she is asleep or not but it seems that she has decided to stay still in the spot.
One cannot talk of interaction between them since one is micro and the other is macro. And in this case, the two never interact when the incident is happening.
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