A 44-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested on a rape cost, police stated Monday, weeks after he was allegedly seen on video performing intercourse acts on a corpse on a subway in Decrease Manhattan.
Felix Rojas was charged with a single depend of first-degree rape within the April 9 incident on the R prepare. Investigators say he was apprehended Sunday, although the circumstances weren’t clear.
Based on the sources, the investigation began with the invention of a physique on the prepare at Whitehall Station early Wednesday. Police instantly reviewed MTA subway cameras and located footage of the acts.
Sources say the suspect carried out or tried to carry out varied intercourse acts on the physique, and that he waited for moments when the prepare automobile was empty to pursue his assault. It is believed the whole assault, which sources say concerned pulling the physique from the prepare seat to the ground, took a number of minutes.
Investigators consider the physique might have been on the prepare for hours earlier than the disturbing incidents, sources stated.
Lawyer data for Rojas wasn’t instantly obtainable.
