Police in New York City have been searching for the suspect who they believe set a man ablaze in Times Square just before 4 am on Sunday, near West 41st Street & 7th Avenue.
Officers located the victim, 45 years old, and put out the fire. Police said he was transported to a hospital nearby in a stable condition.
The law enforcement officials refused to comment on the case further, stating that it is still under investigation.
After the fires are extinguished, video and images show the victim walking down the sidewalk shirtless with firefighters. The man was treated by an ambulance with burns on his face, chest, arms and neck.
Debrina Kawam, 57, from New Jersey, was killed in December after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train. Sebastian Zapeta has pleaded no contest to charges of murder and arson in the Dec. 22 killing.
Zapata is accused of setting fire to Kawam, who was sleeping on a train in Brooklyn’s Coney Island. He then fanned the flames using a shirt while watching her burn from an adjacent subway bench.
