A New York City subway rider on Saturday afternoon lit a cup of flammable liquid, then threw it at a stranger, setting his shirt aflame and burning him on a downtown subway train in Manhattan, according to police.
The 49-year-old suspect threw the flaming liquid on the 23-year-old stranger as the downtown 1 train pulled into the Houston Street station about 2:45 p.m., cops said.
The passenger’s upper torso was burned, and he was taken to the burn unit at NewYork Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center where he was last reported to be in stable condition.
The suspect also allegedly stole a woman’s cell phone that she had dropped near the station’s turnstile, before running to the street, cops said.
Cops tracked the woman’s cell phone to hunt down the suspect at Canal and Renwick streets, where they took him into custody
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