The wheelchair-bound man accused of dragging a dead woman’s body down a New York City street in a sleeping bag was seen holding a plastic urinal as he left the police station.
Chad Irish, 55, clung to the portable male urinal as officers drove him out of Manhattan’s 13th Precinct to face murder charges in the death of Yazmeen Williams, whose body was found dumped outside with the trash last week.
Police say the 31-year-old woman was shot to death before her body was wrapped and disposed of. outside a building on East 27th Street.
Irish now faces charges of second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and loaded firearm, as well as concealment of a human corpse.
Shocking surveillance imagesobtained by CBS News It shows a man in a motorised wheelchair, believed to be Irish, dragging a sleeping bag along the street.
Chad Irish, 55, was wheeled out of Manhattan’s 13th Precinct on Wednesday to face charges in the murder of Yazmeen Williams.
An Irishman was seen strangely clutching a plastic bottle as he was being led into a transport vehicle.
Irish now faces charges of second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and loaded firearm, as well as concealment of a human corpse.
The New York Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious package among the trash in front of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay on the East Side of Manhattan shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
Inside, officers found Williams’ body wrapped in a sleeping bag, and the medical examiner later ruled that he died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Police later named Irish as a person of interest in the murder investigation because he sometimes stayed at their home.
It is unclear whether their relationship was romantic in nature.
Antowne Frazier, who grew up in the apartment complex where Irish lives, said he confronted Irish about the killing on Monday.
“I asked him, ‘What did you do with that young girl?'” he told ABC 7. He said, “I didn’t do anything to that young lady, I just brought some clothes that stank down to my house to drop them off.”
But Frazier said he had his doubts.
“I told him, ‘You’re a dead man, you shouldn’t be around here,'” Frazier said.
“He said, ‘next time you see me, you should worry about me,’ and that’s when he brandished a gun.”
New York City police originally named Irish as a person of interest in Williams’ murder because she was staying at his home.
Surveillance footage showed a man in a wheelchair dragging a sleeping bag down the street.
Irish allegedly brandished a gun in his apartment complex when a neighbor began asking questions about Williams’ murder.
Frazier said Irish then walked away, but returned a few hours ago still displaying his gun.
As Irish walked back into the apartment building, Frazier said she ran to call 911.
When police arrived, a frenzied mob was seen attacking the wheelchair-bound man as he was loaded into a police vehicle.
A crowd, including Williams’ family, was waiting for the suspect as he was wheeled out of the building on a stretcher.
As he came out, one man shouted: “Don’t feed that fucking fool for weeks,” while others shouted: “Kill him!”
The crowd pushed against the glass door and began banging on the glass and yelling as Irish approached the vehicle.
The chaos only increased further when Irish was taken outside, as police struggled to contain the crowd chanting “Get out!”
However, the police were soon overwhelmed when the crowd chased him and began beating him.
Irish was violently attacked when he was arrested on Monday
A woman could be heard crying as Irish tried to proclaim his innocence.
“You killed my daughter!” Williams’ mother, Nicole, screamed as he was loaded into the truck and the crowd continued to bang on the sides of the vehicle.
“He looks like scum,” Nicole added as she sobbed and struggled to catch her breath.
“They said I was dead. I passed out and the officer had to lift me off the ground,” she told police. The New York Post.
“She’s my baby. We have to get justice for her. She didn’t deserve what happened to her.”
A New York City resident stumbled upon a woman’s body wrapped in a garbage bag on a busy sidewalk last week.
Authorities have suggested Williams’ body may have been left in the street for several hours before passerby Rian Robbins reported it, while others reported a stench in the area.
Robbins said he became suspicious about the package when he noticed flies flying around it.
“I walked by there and turned around. There were flies everywhere. And I saw what looked like a rib cage,” Rian Robbins told AMNY.
They were cleaning the building, so I thought maybe it was some old stuff they had thrown away.
Robbins said the body was found lying on what appeared to be a cart. “It was on a rolling cart that was tied to the thing,” Robbins said.
“It was big and swollen like it had been in water.”
Horrified onlookers inside the lobby of a nearby building also filmed disturbing video of detectives cutting open the body bag on the street.
Ted Oehmke, who also witnessed the officers opening the bag, gave gruesome details of what he saw to DailyMail.com.
“There was a hole in the top of the bag and what looked like the top of a head,” he said. “I’d like to say I was shocked, but I wasn’t. It’s a sign of the times, that’s all.”
“It looked like whoever did this went to great lengths to make sure it was wrapped up and exposed,” Oehmke added.
“But I was very surprised to see it lying there in the regular trash, as if the sanitation services were going to take it away.”
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