“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.
According to NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta, detectives were able to identify the guy in the body camera film after he departed the location thanks to security camera footage.
Gulotta said that “no one on the scene identified him as being there,” referring to the fact that a guy who was subsequently identified as a suspect was just a few feet away when police arrived and several onlookers fled the fire.
“Our officers, when they responded, had no indication he was part of this incident,” stated the commander. “We were not driven in that path by anything.
