LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) – Police are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a corpse on a Manhattan subway train early Wednesday morning, sources told PIX11 News.
Officers were investigating reports of a dead body on the R train at the Whitehall St. subway station around 12:30 a.m. when they saw the suspect performing lewd acts on surveillance video, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The man allegedly sexually assaulted the lifeless body when passengers left the train at the end of the line and just before it was set to be cleaned, authorities told PIX11 News.
Sources say the unresponsive person was homeless and may have died of natural causes.
The man was last seen wearing a yellow hoodie. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
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Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found here.
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