In a tragic incident, a woman was set on fire on a subway train in Brooklyn on Sunday. According to the police, a man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described Sunday's incident as "one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being."
The man had used a lighter to ignite her clothing, while she was travelling on a stationary F train. She was in a subway carriage at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station at about 7:30 local time when the man approached her. Although the officers extinguished the flames, the woman died at the scene.
The police said that they are questioning the suspect to establish a possible motive behind the attack.
Before the attack, there was "no interaction" between the pair, said NYPD's Joseph Gulotta.
According to Tisch, the officers on patrol at an upper-level station smelled smoke and went to investigate, when they saw a person fully engulfed in flames inside the train car.
The man got off the train as police officers on patrol rushed to the train. "The suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car," Tisch said.
The police were able to obtain "very clear, detailed" imagery of the man from the responding officers' body-worn camera. The pictures were released by the NYPD and soon they got the information on the suspect via a 911 call.
He was arrested at Herald Square station - which is located near the Empire State Building in Manhattan. He was found with a lighter in his pocket, Ms Tisch said.
Gulotta said that the man emigrated from Guatemala to the US in 2018.