Heart-pounding footage shows a mob of angry neighbours trying to beat up a suspect as he was detained in the murder of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a sleeping bag on Monday.
Video shows dozens of local residents, including the 31-year-old victim’s distraught mother, surrounded the 55-year-old man as he was carried away on a stretcher outside Strauss Houses, a NYCHA complex in Kips Bay.
One man threw at least one punch, and others appeared to try to dish out their own version of street justice.
Sources said the man, handcuffed to a stretcher, was taken away in an ambulance and later questioned by detectives in connection with the death of Yazmin Williams.
Panic erupted when Williams was found stuffed into a sleeping bag and abandoned on a Manhattan street on Friday next to a pile of trash.
Police ruled her death a homicide Monday and said she was shot in the head.
The suspect also met Williams’ mother, Nicole Williams, as Williams was being placed into the back of an ambulance at NYU Langone.
“You killed my daughter,” Nicole Williams yelled, pointing at the man who police have yet to identify or charge.
Others also denounced him, calling him a “crackhead,” and some yelled, “Kill him!”
After the ambulance drove off, sirens blaring, investigators held Nicole Williams’ arms.
Williams told The Post the same day that she believes her daughter’s killer was a friend in a wheelchair.
Police sources said the suspect had been spotted in a motorized wheelchair dragging a sleeping bag and was on NYPD surveillance.
It was not clear Monday where Williams’ shooting occurred.
