Story: :: December 22, 2024
:: New York
* A suspect is detained after a woman is arrested
Death in New York subway fire
:: Jessica Tisch, New York City Police Commissioner
“Initially, we were going to use this press conference to ask for the public’s help in identifying and locating someone who we believe committed one of the most evil crimes a person could commit against another person. It took an innocent person away. life.
“At approximately 7:30 this morning, our suspect and victim were both traveling on the F train to the terminal on Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn. As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim and The victim was sitting at the end of a subway car. The suspect used what we believe was a lighter to light the victim’s clothing, which was completely engulfed within seconds. Police patrolling the station’s upper floors smelled and saw smoke. and went to investigate. What they saw was a man standing inside a train car, engulfed in flames. With the help of MTA employees and fire extinguishers, the flames were extinguished. Unfortunately, it was too late and the victim was pronounced at the scene. .
*Joseph Gulotta, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner
“So we’re like I said, that’s going to be part of the investigation. She’s definitely right there, not moving. So whether she’s asleep or not, we’re not 100 percent sure, but she seems to be there not moving. .There was no interaction between the two and there was no interaction between them when the incident occurred.
[Is there any reason to believe they knew each other from a prior incident?]
“We don’t believe they knew each other. No.”
The woman sat motionless on a stationary F train at the Stilwell Avenue subway station in Coney Island, Brooklyn, around 7:30 a.m. (1230 GMT) when an unidentified man walked Approach her and light her with a lighter. Police said there was no interaction before the attack and they do not believe the two men knew each other.
When police patrolling the station rushed to the scene of the fire, the man got out of the car.
Police said officers used fire extinguishers to put out the fire, and emergency crews pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
Late Sunday, police arrested a suspect whose identity has not been released while riding the subway.
Police said they were still investigating the identity of the victim and the cause of the attack.
The city’s subways have about 4 million trips every weekday, and violent crime is relatively low. Police data shows that as of November, there have been nine subway homicides in 2024, compared with five in the same period in 2023.
