New York Man Arrested for Burning a Woman in a Brooklyn Subway

A woman was set on fire and died at the scene, and a suspect was caught in the Brooklyn subway.

Regarding the death of a woman who was burned alive on a Brooklyn subway train, a guy has been taken into custody in New York.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch clarified that a man approached the woman and ignited her clothing with a lighter while she was traveling to Brooklyn on a halted train. At that moment, the woman passed away. When a group of high school kids saw the suspect on the train and alerted the police, he was taken into custody.

At approximately 7:30 local time (12:30 GMT), the woman, whose identity has not been made public, was in a subway carriage at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn when a guy approached her, according to police.

Police think the two were strangers because there was no contact between them before to the assault. Officers on station patrol reacted to the fire, and the man got off the train.

“Officers on patrol on an upper level of that station smelled and saw smoke and went to investigate,” Tisch added.

They witnessed a person standing completely immersed in flames inside the train car.

“The suspect had remained at the scene and was sitting on a bench on the platform just outside the train car, but the responding officers were unaware of this.”

She said the New York Police Department (NYPD) disseminated pictures of the individual and responding officers received a “very clear, detailed” description of him. The victim’s identity and the attack’s motivation are still being investigated by the authorities.

When police officers got on the train and proceeded through the subterranean carriages, they found the man. He was taken into custody at Herald Square station, which is close to the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The police commissioner said that a lighter was discovered in the man’s pocket.

According to Joseph Gulotta of the NYPD, the suspect, who has not been made public, immigrated to the US from Guatemala in 2018. Gulotta stated that investigators are still attempting to ascertain whether the woman was asleep at the time of her fire.