NYPD arrests person of interest in woman's fatal burning on subway
A man described as a person of interest in the search for a suspect who set a woman sleeping in a subway car on fire, killing her, was taken into custody Sunday, New York City police said.
A man described as a person of interest in the search for a suspect who set a woman sleeping in a subway car on fire, killing her, was taken into custody Sunday, New York City police said.
"A person of interest is in custody," city transportation authority security chief Michael Kemper said at a news conference Sunday evening. The NYPD’s public information office said that charges are pending and that , once they are made public, the man's identity will be released.
"There must be strong, swift consequences on this person," Kemper said. "There is no room in civilized society for people like him to be walking around."
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the news conference that a person was seen in the area just after the crime, sitting on a platform bench, and that an officer's body camera captured clear imagery of him that was made public via a wanted flier.
Police investigate at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in Brooklyn after a woman aboard a subway car was set on fire and died in New York on on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images"Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform, just outside the train car, and the body-worn cameras on the responding officers produced a very clear, detailed look at the killer," she said.
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