Dramatic video shows NYPD officers swarming a crowded Manhattan subway train and taking away a Guatemalan immigrant accused of setting a sleeping subway passenger on fire and watching her burn to death. It shows you doing it.
Officers were searching for the suspect on the platform of the 34th Street Herald Square station when he was attacked in a crowded subway car (video). share on an Instagram show.
Two police officers were seen pushing past commuters and charging at the alleged killer. The culprit was sitting with his head down, possibly asleep.
One of the officers then wrapped his arms around the suspect and pushed him to the ground, but more officers rushed to his aid.
About five police officers were seen pinning down the Guatemalan man and handcuffing him while pressing his face against a plastic subway seat.
Concerned and confused shackles watch and back away as police yell at them to get off the train.
Passengers inside the already packed subway car can be seen struggling to escape the chaos before the video ends.
Three high school students called police and said they saw the man at the Jay and York Street F train station, Tisch and NYPD Transportation Commissioner Joseph Gulotta said.
Police were called earlier, stopped the train at Herald Square, and moved from car to car until they found and arrested the suspect.
“Second Precinct officers stopped the train at Herald Square, walked around the train with the doors closed, and were able to take this extremely dangerous individual into custody,” Gulotta said.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the suspect had a lighter in his pocket when he was picked up.
The 33-year-old suspect, whose name has not yet been released pending charges, was found sleeping on an idling F subway train at Brooklyn's Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue station around 7:30 a.m. Sunday. He is accused of setting a passenger on fire. morning
“As the train entered the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was sitting on the edge of the subway car, and used what appeared to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing, causing it to completely burn out.” It swallowed me up in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said.
Horrifying footage obtained by the newspaper showed the suspect calmly watching as flames consumed an unidentified woman standing inside the open door of a subway car.
Officers on patrol eventually reached the smoldering victim and extinguished the fire. The victim died at the scene.
“Unknown to the responding officers, the suspect remained at the scene and was sitting on a bench on the platform just outside the vehicle,” Tisch said.
“The responding officers' body-worn cameras provided a very clear and detailed view of the killer.”
Around 1 p.m., authorities removed the body bag containing the woman's body from the train, placed it on a stretcher and transferred it to an autopsy vehicle.
The woman has not yet been identified.
The murder suspect came to the United States from Guatemala in 2018, officials said. Border Patrol agents detained him in Arizona in June of that year, officials said.
His legal status was not immediately clear.
