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New York City authorities are searching for an individual who they said set a man on fire in Times Square early Sunday morning, leaving him severely burned.
Police responded to reports of a 45-year-old man on fire at the corner of West 41st Street and Broadway in Manhattan just before 4 a.m.
Police do not believe the attack was random and think the attacker knew the victim.
No arrests have been made.
Man set on fire in Times Square, leaving him horrifically burned: video https://t.co/9BHLq2iUE8 pic.twitter.com/C5BO2QUW6i
— New York Post (@nypost) March 16, 2025
From the Associated Press:
Officers spotted the 45-year-old victim and extinguished the flames. He was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition, police said.
Law enforcement officials say they believe the victim, who they have not named, knows the man who set him on fire. They declined to comment further, saying the case remains under investigation.
Video and images from the scene show the victim walking along the sidewalk shirtless and accompanied by firefighters after the flames were put out. Footage of the man being treated in an ambulance showed burns to his face, neck, chest and arms.
In December, Debrina Kawam, 57, of New Jersey, died after being set on fire in a New York subway train. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, has pleaded not guilty to murder and arson charges in the Dec. 22 killing.
Prosecutors say Zapeta set fire to Kawam while she was sleeping aboard a train stopped at a station in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, then fanned the flames with a shirt and watched her burn from a subway station bench.
🚨🇺🇸MAN SET ON FIRE IN TIMES SQUARE—ATTACKER STILL ON THE LOOSE
A 45-year-old man was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire in Times Square this morning. Quick-thinking NYPD officers used a fire extinguisher to save him, and he is expected to survive.
The suspect, wearing… https://t.co/imrrm7i7YD pic.twitter.com/UEUWG6CVts
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 16, 2025
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Investigators separately told The Post they believed the accelerant was being held in a small, glass Patron bottle, which was found at the scene in the middle of where the two men were during the attack.
But sources said that theory does not appear to be accurate now.
The victim ran about 100 feet while on fire before someone ran up and doused him with the powder from a fire extinguisher, authorities said.
A Brooklyn woman who works at a nearby restaurant told The Post the area gets “pretty scary” early in the morning — and there aren’t many cops around to help.
“[The victim] looks familiar,’’ said the worker, Anne Lee, 26. “I see him hanging around here when I have to come in early.
“Yeah it’s pretty scary before 8 or 9 a.m.,’’ she said. “There are no cops on these blocks at all. These side streets. They’re really only on the avenues, and they only give directions to tourists.”
EMS took the victim to New York Presbyterian Cornell hospital, where he is in stable condition, police said.
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