New York – Police in New York City is looking for a suspect who, they say, set up a man on Times Square shortly before 4 in the morning on Sunday morning near West 41st Street and 7th Avenue.
The officers saw the 45 -year -old victim and extinguished the flames. He was taken to a close hospital in stable condition, police said.
The officials responsible for enforcing the law declined to make more comments, saying that the case is still under investigation.
Video and images From the scene he shows the victim walking down the sidewalk without a shirt and accompanied by firefighters after the flames went out. The images of the man being treated in an ambulance showed burns on the face, neck, chest and arms.
In December, Debrina Kawam, 57, New Jersey, died After being burned on a New York subway train. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, has He declared himself innocent Killer and fire charges caused in the murder of December 22.
The prosecutors say that Zapeta set Kawam fire while sleeping aboard a train stopped at a station on Roney Island in Brooklyn, then fueled the flames with a shirt and looked at her burn from a bench at the Metro station.
