According to New York City police, a guy who was identified as a person of interest in the hunt for the suspect who killed a woman who was sleeping in a subway car by setting it on fire was arrested on Sunday.
“A person of interest is in custody,” Michael Kemper, the security chief for the city’s transportation authority, stated during a press conference on Sunday night. The identify of the man in custody will be made public after charges are filed, according to the NYPD public information office.
“There must be strong, swift consequences on this person,” Kemper stated. “There is no room in civilized society for people like him to be walking around.”
At the news conference, Commissioner Jessica Tisch of the New York Police Department stated that a wanted flier had revealed that a suspect had been spotted in the vicinity shortly after the crime, sitting on a platform bench, and that the officer’s body camera had taken clear pictures of him.
According to NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta, security camera footage assisted investigators in identifying the guy seen in the body camera film.
Later in the day, three motorcyclists who were characterized as “high school-age” observed a person who resembled the man and dialed 911, Tisch said. According to her, responding officers found the man, got on that train, and arrested him.
Just before 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, the unnamed woman was found dozing off on an unoccupied F train at the Stillwell Avenue stop in Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department. According to authorities, a man approached her there, set her on fire, and then ran out of the subway.
Tisch stated that the perpetrator “calmly walked up to the victim and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing.”
According to police during the news conference, officers assigned to the region were one level up, smelt the smoke, and hurried to the site, with one officer standing by and others obtaining fire extinguishers. According to officers, the fire was extinguished.
Emergency medical services pronounced the woman deceased at the scene, according to police, who also stated that a homicide investigation is underway.
According to the description, the suspect was between 25 and 30 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighed 150 pounds. He was dressed in trousers, a knit cap with a red band, brown boots, and a gray hooded sweatshirt, according to body camera footage.
According to the police, the person of interest was dressed in the same clothes, including jeans or pants with paint splashed on them, and carried a lighter in his pocket.
South Brooklyn councilman Justin Brannan of New York City said on X that he was waiting for an update on the horrifying immolation at the subway station.
And please remember the victim,” he wrote.
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