NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Police released photos Thursday of a woman who allegedly stole property from an "unresponsive" man on a Lower Manhattan subway train—shortly before a second suspect performed sex acts on the victim’s corpse after he died, sources said.
It’s unclear if the man was dead when the woman “removed unknown property” from him aboard a downtown R train at the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station late Tuesday night.
According to police, he was “unconscious and unresponsive” when she came up around 10:45 p.m. and stole his property.
Sources said it appears it's the same victim who was violated less than two hours later when a man performed multiple sex acts on him after he'd died aboard the train. The NYPD previously released images of the male suspect, wanted for sexual misconduct.
The sickening attack happened around 12:20 a.m. Wednesday as the dead man’s body was lying on a train seat. Surveillance video from the train showed the man performing the lewd acts on the corpse, sources said.
There was no immediate indication the two suspects knew each other or the victim.
Police are working to identify the victim, as the medical examiner looks into his exact cause of death.
Investigators believe he was homeless and may have died from natural causes on the train. His body was found later that night by an MTA conductor.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.