Disturbing footage purports to show the moment a suspect in a motorised wheelchair dragged a woman’s body in a sleeping bag down a Manhattan street in broad daylight.
Chad Irish, 55, was arrested after Yazmeen Williams’ body was found dumped alongside trash in Kips Bay on July 5.
The 31-year-old woman was shot dead before her body was wrapped and disposed of. outside a building on East 27th Street.
New surveillance images obtained by CBS News It shows a man in a motorized wheelchair dragging a sleeping bag down the street.
Irish has been charged with concealing a human corpse, unlawful possession of a weapon and menacing, and is the only person of interest linked to Williams’ murder. Police said she would stay at Irish’s home, but it is unclear if their relationship was romantic.
Disturbing video shows the moment a suspect in a motorized wheelchair allegedly dragged a woman’s dead body in a sleeping bag down a New York City street in broad daylight.
The final clip shows the man in the electric wheelchair, wearing a blue T-shirt and black cap, dragging a sleeping bag behind him before quickly walking out of frame.
Williams’ body was discovered wrapped in a sleeping bag on Friday. Medical examiners said he died from a gunshot wound to the head.
A frenzied mob was filmed attacking a wheelchair-bound Irishman as he was being loaded into a police vehicle on Monday.
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!”
As he was led to the door, the crowd pushed open the glass door and began banging on the glass and shouting.
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.
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.”
New York Police Department officers 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.
Yazmeen Williams’ body was discovered wrapped in a sleeping bag on Friday
A New York City resident stumbled upon a woman’s body wrapped in a garbage bag on a busy sidewalk last week.
The victim was identified by her mother Nicole Williams as Yazmeen Williams
Rian Robbins, the passerby who made the chilling discovery, said she was suspicious about the package because there were flies buzzing 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.”
Authorities said the body had been lying on the street for some time because other residents had reported a stench in the area before Robbins.
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