Video footage posted online shows New York City residents on Monday furious over a suspect arrested in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found with items inside her bag.
New York Police Department (NYPD) authorities discovered 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams on Friday evening, shot in the head, stuffed into a sleeping bag and then placed in a plastic bag that was left on the sidewalk of a Manhattan street. according to To PIX11 News.
Williams' body had been left to decompose near a pile of garbage bags, and police found surveillance footage that showed a man in a motorized wheelchair dragging the bags outside and then carrying them to where she was later found, the outlet reported. (RELATED: Video of brutal murder suspect laughing in court infuriates victim's family)
Residents then reportedly found a man resembling the CCTV footage at a public housing complex and held him down until police arrived and made an arrest. Video posted to Twitter by Olya Scootercaster showed the chaotic moment as authorities loaded the man onto a stretcher, with local residents outside the building screaming and filming the incident.
As the man was seen being carried outside, police were seen struggling to hold back some bystanders in the large crowd who tried to punch the man on the stretcher.
As the man is placed into the back of an emergency vehicle, a woman can be heard screaming from behind the camera: “Kill him, please kill him.”
#breaking news Chaos erupts after a murder suspect is taken into custody after the decomposing body of a murdered woman is found in a sleeping bag on a Manhattan sidewalk.
The man police believe was involved was carried out on a stretcher from inside the Strauss House NYCHA complex on the E. pic.twitter.com/wwOAk4ZdDQ
— Oliya ScooterCaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) July 8, 2024
Williams was a Kips Bay neighborhood resident, and her aunt, Nisha Ramirez, described her as “kind” and a “lovely person,” according to PIX11 News.
“Honestly, I don't know who would do something to her,” Ramirez told the outlet. “She's a kind person. She's a good person and she grew up here. I don't know why someone would be motivated to do something to her.”
Following an autopsy, the coroner ruled Williams' cause of death a homicide, but the relationship of the man in the wheelchair to the victim is unclear as the investigation is ongoing.
