Manhattan man arrested – NBC New York

A person who needed to be escorted from the Manhattan scene the place a mob tried to assault him as NYPD officers cuffed him in reference to a homicide investigation is charged with concealment of a human corpse, authorities mentioned Tuesday.

Although he isn’t charged with homicide on this case right now, the person does have a historical past of an arrest on a homicide cost — in 1994, when he allegedly blew up a home as his uncle walked inside, investigators mentioned.

He additionally faces menacing and felony weapons possession expenses in one other case, the NYPD mentioned.

It wasn’t clear if prosecutors deliberate to hunt upgraded expenses in opposition to the person within the dying of 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams, whose physique was present in a sleeping bag, which was additionally bagged, thrown out with different trash for rubbish pickup on an East twenty seventh Road sidewalk in Kips Bay Friday. Cops say Williams had been shot within the head.

They dominated her dying a murder. It is not clear how lengthy her physique was within the sleeping bag earlier than the grisly discovery.

Video and images shared on social media present what seems to be a full-sized physique lined in a darkish sleeping bag that was additional wrapped in black trash baggage. Sources instructed NBC New York that surveillance video appeared to indicate an individual in an electrical wheelchair pulling the sleeping bag in tow.

Police mentioned a person in his 50s was arrested in reference to the incident. Crowds tried to provide him a dose of road justice. Officers and paramedics held the mob again whereas punches have been thrown, as others have been seen spitting on him.

Tensions have been excessive till the person was put into an ambulance and brought to a close-by hospital.

The sufferer’s mom, Nicole Williams, was there when he was led away.

“He’s disgusting… he appears to be like like scum,” mentioned Williams. “They have been indignant. He … took her life away … threw my daughter in a rubbish bag.”

Lawyer data for the person wasn’t instantly accessible Tuesday.