According to New York City police, a guy who was identified as a person of interest in the hunt for a suspect who killed a lady who was sleeping in a subway vehicle by setting it on fire was arrested on Sunday.
“A person of interest is in custody,” Michael Kemper, the security head for the city’s transportation authority, said at a press conference on Sunday night.
According to the NYPD public relations office, charges are still pending and the man’s identify will be made public once they are.
“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.”
During the press conference, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that a wanted individual was identified by.
A wanted flyer and that an officer’s body camera had recorded clear images of the suspect sitting on a platform bench in the area shortly after the incident.
