Teen Held in Subway Attack That Killed Clerk
Police arrested a teenager Thursday in connection with a deadly subway attack that mirrored a scene from a film.
Police did not immediately release the name or age of the person in custody and they continued searching for a second suspect.
Subway clerk Harry Kaufman, 50, died Sunday, two weeks after two male suspects squirted a flammable liquid into his token booth and set it ablaze in a botched robbery attempt.
“Money Train,” starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, twice depicts a pyromaniac squirting gas into a token booth and lighting it, but in the movie the clerks escape unharmed.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and police laid some of the blame for the attack on the movie, but transit officials say there were at least nine such attacks in the five years before the movie’s release.
Police have been investigating the attack on Kaufman and several similar cases, including two Sunday and one Saturday night, in which clerks escaped injury.
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