A man was arrested this Sunday, December 22 in New York, suspected of having killed a woman on the subway by setting her clothes on fire. According to the first elements of the investigation, the two people did not know each other.
It is “one of the most depraved crimes that a person can commit against another human being,” according to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. A man was arrested this Sunday, December 22 in New York, suspected of having killed a woman in the subway earlier in the day by burning her alive.
Their subway stopped at the Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn when “the suspect calmly approached the victim who was sitting at the end of a car,” Jessica Tisch explained at a press conference this week. Sunday.
The man “used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing, which burned to the ground in a matter of seconds,” she added. According to police, the two had no interactions before this action and investigators do not believe they knew each other.
Identified by high school students
When police arrived, “it was unfortunately too late” and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect did not go very far: the man was sitting on a bench on the platform, just in front of the wagon.
But the police did not notice it at the time. It was high school students who had seen the call for witnesses immediately broadcast by the police who called for help after seeing him on the subway in Manhattan later that day. Commissioner Tisch thanked these teenagers on Sunday: “they saw something, they spoke and they acted”.
As of Sunday, police had not yet identified the victim. The man, whose identity has not been released, arrived in 2018 in the United States from Guatemala, according to police.
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