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A man has been accused of having sex with a dead body on a New York subway.
The victim is believed to have died on board an R train at around 8pm on Tuesday. When or how he died is unclear.
Hours later, a man entered the same subway carriage as the dead man and began to have sex with the corpse, The New York Times reported.
There is a manhunt underway for a yellow-hooded suspect and police officers have released footage of the accused necrophiliac.
(Picture: NYPD)
Officials say they have CCTV of the man entering the carriage in a Manhattan train station on Tuesday evening.
Within 45 minutes, he saw the dead man and allegedly began to rummage through his pockets.
It is then alleged he began to sexually assault the corpse before getting off the train and fleeing at Whitehall Street subway station.
The dead homeless man is believed to have died of natural causes, sources have said.
Investigators also do not think the two knew each other.
The man had a goatee, a yellow-hooded sweatshirt and a black puffer jacket and a blue Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap.
He lives with his brother, who told the New York Post the man has a substance use disorder and was released from prison a few months ago.
But he insisted his brother wasn’t ‘like that’, making clear he did not believe his brother carried out the sex act he is accused of.
Crimes on New York Subway
More than 3.6million people ride the New York subway each day, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
The busy transport network has been a hot topic in public debate and has been the site of shocking murders and attacks in recent years.
A woman was lit on fire and burned to death on the subway in December last year.
Assaults on the subway have tripled since 2009, according to Vital City analysis.
In 2023, the majority of frequent subway offenders (two-plus arrests) were homeless or had a history of mental illness
Felony assaults take place about once every 2.3 million rides, whereas shootings happen one in every 190 million rides.
Despite this, crime has dropped to record lows on the subway in the first three months of this year.
Major crimes, including robberies and felony assaults, declined 18 percent from Jan. 1 through March 31.
They reached the second-lowest level in nearly three decades.
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