Woman lit in New York subway: shocking act and arrest!

Woman lit in New York subway: shocking act and arrest!

In a shocking incident, a man on the New York subway set a woman on fire while she was apparently in a sleep-like state. The cruel deed occurred on Sunday morning on a train of line F in Brooklyn. The perpetrator approached the victim around 7:30 a.m. and lit their clothes with a lighter before he fled. "The clothes had completely risen in flames within seconds," said police commissioner Jessica Tisch of the press. Despite the fast reaction of the police who deleted the fire, only the death of the woman could be determined, as the reports of krone.at

The perpetrator remains on site and is caught

surveillance cameras provided a clear picture of the perpetrator who was calm on a bench on the platform and watched his victim opened in the flames. According to the police, there was no interaction between the suspect and the woman, which indicates that they did not know each other. It was caught about eight hours after the incident in another train in Midtown Manhattan. When arrested, the officials found the lighter used, which served as a murder weapon, such as rnd.de reported.

The victim has not yet been identified. The police suspect that many homeless people use the subway area during the cold winter months to escape the cold. With the winter temperatures of up to minus ten degrees, the subway is a temporary protected area for many. The circumstances of the attack, in which the woman was either sleeping or unconscious, throw dark shadows on the security situation in the New York subway system.