Man Caught On Video Sexually Abusing Corpse On NYC Subway

NEW YORK CITY — Police are searching for a man who was captured on surveillance video performing sex acts on a corpse in a New York City subway train on Tuesday.

The incident happened around 11:45 p.m. aboard an R train at the Whitehall Station in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, police said.

MTA employees and police found the dead body early Wednesday morning and reviewed security footage where they saw the suspect perform the sex acts.

The Tuesday incident was first reported by the New York Post and NBC New York.

On Thursday, the NYPD released surveillance images and video of the suspect.

He was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, black hooded jacket, a yellow hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, red and white sneakers and carrying a black backpack.

The identity of the deceased victim has not been released.

No arrests have been made yet as of Thursday night.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.