A suspect has been arrested for the alleged murder of a woman on a New York City subway after setting her on fire. The victim was attacked on a train traveling towards the Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn.
A suspect has been arrested for allegedly killing a woman after setting her alight on a subway train in New York City . The unidentified victim was traveling towards Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn when a man set her clothes on fire with a lighter at around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 22, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported. According to the commissioner, the suspect “calmly walked up to the victim” who was in a seated position at the end of the train car.
He then ignited her clothing and she was “fully engulfed in a matter of seconds.” Officers on patrol on an upper level of the station “saw smoke” and rushed to the train, using a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. Unfortunately, the victim was pronounced dead on the scene, Tisch revealed. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper called it a 'brutal, senseless homicide,' per the conference. Surveillance footage from inside the subway car showed the assailant approaching the woman without saying a word and igniting the blanket she was wrapped in. The suspect then sat on a bench and watched the woman burn. However, their Bodycam footage provided a detailed profile of the suspect and images of the man in question were circulated
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