A Guatemalan immigrant has been arrested on suspicion of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train. new york post.
Sources within the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said of post Police officers found the man suspected of setting a sleeping woman on fire on the F train around 7:30 a.m. and “detained him” after “a civilian identified the murder suspect on board the train.” ”.
According to the report, a “law enforcement source” told the report: “Investigators believe the woman was asleep when the man got up from where he was sitting and “walked over and threw a match at her.” he said.
Construction manager Alex Greev told the outlet that the situation in the city had gone “a little bit downhill,” adding that robberies, murders and shootings were “really common these days.”
“The situation is going downhill a little bit,” Greev told the outlet. “Everyone keeps saying we're going back to the '70s. This happens a lot, and it doesn't set people on fire like it did this time, but like robberies, murders, fights, shootings, today… That's really common.”
NBC New York reported Police said they found the woman “onboard the F train at the Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue subway station in Coney Island.” Police officers who responded to the scene reportedly found the woman “fully engulfed in flames” and she was pronounced dead.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the suspect “committed one of the most despicable crimes that one human being can commit against another human being,” according to the newspaper.
Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) responded to the incident: post In X, he criticized the “political establishment” for gaslighting Americans by claiming that “crime is down” and that the subways are “safe.”
“On the F train on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, a man with dementia lit a sleeping woman on fire with a match, and the victim was burned alive and died at the scene,” Torres wrote. .
“In New York, dangerous people are allowed to roam freely in the subways,” Torres added. “Yet the political establishment insists on gaslighting the public with deceptive headlines such as “Crime is down'' and “Subways are safe.''
The suspect has not yet been charged with a crime, police officials said. new york state.
As Breitbart News previously reported, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicates there are more than 58,000 undocumented immigrants in New York City who have been convicted or currently face criminal charges. announced new data.
