Wheelchair-bound maniac exits police station after jaw-dropping footage showed him dragging dead woman down NYC street in sleeping bag
The wheelchair-bound man accused of dragging a dead woman’s body in a sleeping bag through a New York City street was seen clutching a plastic urinal as he left the police station.
Chad Irish, 55, held the portable male urinal as officers drove him out of Manhattan’s 13th Precinct to charge him with the murder of Yazmeen Williams, whose body was found outside in the trash last week.
According to police, the 31-year-old woman was shot dead before her body was wrapped and discarded. outside a building on East 27th Street.
Irish now faces charges of second-degree murder, second-degree possession of a weapon and a loaded firearm, and concealment of a human corpse.
Shocking CCTV footage oobtained by CBS News shows a man in an electric wheelchair – presumably of Irish descent – dragging a sleeping bag down the street.
Chad Irish, 55, was wheeled out of Manhattan’s 13th precinct on Wednesday to face trial for the murder of Yazmeen Williams
Irish was seen strangely holding a plastic bottle as he was wheeled towards a transport vehicle
Irish is now charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon and loaded firearm in the second degree, as well as concealing a human corpse
The NYPD responded to a report of a suspicious package in the trash in front of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay on the East Side of Manhattan just before 5 p.m. Friday.
Inside, officers found Williams’ body wrapped in a sleeping bag. The coroner later determined she had died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Police later named Irish as a suspect in the murder investigation because she sometimes stayed with him.
It is unclear whether their relationship was romantic in nature.
Antowne Frazier, who grew up in the apartment complex where Irish lives, said he confronted Irish about the killing on Monday.
“I said, ‘What did you do to that young girl?’” told ABC 7. “He said he ‘didn’t do anything to that young girl. I just brought some laundry downstairs, which was stinking up my house, to drop it off there.’
But Frazier said he had his doubts.
“I told him, ‘You’re doomed, you don’t belong here,'” Frazier said.
“He said, ‘Next time you see me, you should worry about me,’ and then he waved a gun.”
New York City police originally named Irish as a suspect in Williams’ murder because she had been staying at his home
Surveillance footage showed a man in a wheelchair dragging a sleeping bag across the street
Irish allegedly brandished a gun in his apartment complex when a neighbor began asking questions about Williams’ murder
Frazier said Irish then walked away, but returned a few hours ago with his gun still drawn.
As Irish walked back to the apartment complex, Frazier said he ran to call 911.
When police arrived on the scene, an angry crowd was seen attacking the man in a wheelchair as he was being loaded into a police car.
A crowd, including Williams’ family, waited for the suspect as he was wheeled out of a building on a stretcher.
When he came out, one man shouted, “Don’t feed that fucking prick for weeks,” while others shouted, “Kill him!”
The crowd pushed against the glass door and began banging on the glass and shouting as Irish walked toward the vehicle.
The chaos escalated further when Irish was brought outside as police struggled to hold back the crowd, who chanted, “Get out!”
However, the police were soon overwhelmed when the crowd chased him and began beating him.
Irish was violently attacked while being taken into custody on Monday
A woman’s wail was heard as Irish tried to prove his innocence.
“You killed my daughter!” Williams’ mother Nicole screamed as he was loaded onto the bus and the crowd continued to beat on the sides of the vehicle.
“He looks like trash,” Nicole added, sobbing and gasping for breath.
“They said she was dead. I passed out and the officer had to pick me up off the ground,” she told the New York Post.
“She’s my baby. We need to get justice for her. She didn’t deserve what happened to her.”
A New York resident came across the body of a woman wrapped in a garbage bag on a busy sidewalk last week
Officials said Williams’ body may have been lying in the street for several hours before passerby Rian Robbins reported it, as others reported a stench in the area.
Robbins said she became suspicious when she saw flies circling the package.
“I walked past it and turned around, there were flies all over the place. And I saw what looked like a rib cage,” Rian Robbins told AMNY.
They were cleaning out the building, so I thought, maybe it’s something old that they threw away.’
Robbins said the body was on what looked like a cart. “It was on a rolling cart that was tied to the thing,” Robbins said.
“It was large and bloated, as if it had been in the water.”
Shocked bystanders in the lobby of a nearby building also filmed disturbing footage of detectives cutting open the body bag in the street.
Ted Oehmke, who also saw police cut open the bag, told DailyMail.com about the gruesome details he saw.
“There was a hole in the top of the bag and what looked like the top of a head was in it,” he said. “I’d like to say I was shocked, but I’m not. It’s a sign of the times, that’s all.”
“It looked like whoever did it had gone to great lengths to keep it wrapped up and in plain sight,” Oehmke added.
‘But I was still surprised when I saw it lying there in the garbage can, as if the cleaning service was just going to clean it up.’