The NYPD said 49-year-old Nile Taylor set a cup of liquid on fire and hurled it at a passenger on the No. 1 train as it pulled into the station at Houston…
using a flaming liquid was arrested, and police believe he is also behind an arson at a different Manhattan station earlier in the year.
The NYPD said 49-year-old Nile Taylor set a cup of liquid on fire and hurled it at a passenger on the No. 1 train as it pulled into the station at Houston Street in SoHo Saturday afternoon. The victim's shirt caught fire, and he suffered burns to his chest. He was taken to Cornell Medical Center with minor burns, according to police, and was expected to survive.Taylor took off immediately after the incident, but police caught up with him near Canal Street and Renwick Street in Hudson Square after police tracked a phone he allegedly stole from another subway rider to his location.
While in custody for the flaming weekend attack, police said that Taylor was also charged in connection with a similar incident at a subway station in Chelsea earlier in the year. In that scary encounter, Taylor allegedly threw a container with a flaming liquid at a group of people on the No. 1 train platform at the West 28th Street station.Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox.
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