A man sets fire to a sleeping woman’s clothes at an empty subway station early in the morning.
A surveillance camera captured him sitting on a platform bench outside the vehicle at the scene of the crime.
Students were arrested in another subway after reporting that they had seen the photo distributed by police.
New York City police announced on the early morning of the 22nd (local time) that they had arrested a man suspected of setting the woman on fire in connection with the case of a woman who was intentionally set on fire by a completely unknown man while she was asleep in a subway station that had stopped at its last stop.
New York City transit police arrested the suspect after receiving reports from three high school students who recognized the man. Students reported the man to the police after seeing the suspect in surveillance and police body camera video distributed by the police.
“New Yorkers have offended again,” said New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. “This is one of the most depraved crimes one person can commit against another.”
Tisch said both the unidentified woman and the suspect were riding the subway to the end of the Brooklyn line around 7:30 a.m. and that nothing had happened between them.
Subway surveillance video showed that after the train stopped at the last stop, a man approached a sleeping woman and set her clothes on fire with a lighter, and the woman’s clothes were instantly engulfed in flames.
Police said they do not believe the two men knew each other.
Officers on routine patrol at the Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue subway station smelled smoke, saw smoke, and found a woman on fire inside a subway car. The police quickly extinguished the fire, but the woman died at the scene.
Tisch said that although police did not notice at the time, the suspect remained at the scene and sat on a bench on the platform just outside the train car. However, his image was captured “very clearly and in detail” on the police body camera, and was immediately distributed publicly.
“Later, after receiving a report from the teenagers, other traffic police officers searched another subway and arrested the man,” said Joseph Gullotta, head of the transportation department. Tisch added that the man had a lighter in his pocket when he was arrested.
Gullotta said the investigation into whether the victim was homeless and the suspect’s background is continuing.
In addition to this incident, there was another death on the New York subway that day.
At 12:35 a.m., police responded to a report of an assault at the 61st Street Woodside Station in Queens and found a 37-year-old and a 26-year-old man with multiple stab wounds. Among them, a 26-year-old man is in stable condition, but a 37-year-old man has died.
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