Police say the man charged with dumping a woman’s body in the trash in Kips Bay allegedly dragged the corpse in plain sight of neighbors.
According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, residents were none the wiser when Chad Irish, 55, allegedly dragged the corpse of 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams out of the NYCHA Strauss Houses, located at 224-226 East 28th St. on July 5. Chief Kenny noted that they even held the door open for the alleged killer.
“Chad Irish is removing that package, a sleeping bag, from the location in his wheelchair, quite a few residents were more than happy to hold the door open for him as he wheeled the body down the street,” Chief Kenny said.
The surveillance video appeared to show Irish, using his motorized wheelchair, dragging the remains wrapped in a blue sleeping bag out of the building in front of several people before hauling it along the sidewalk and leaving it in the trash outside of 207 East 27th Street.
The body was discovered late in the evening after 911 callers reported a rancid odor.
“I walked by and turned around, there were flies swarming all over it. And I saw what that looked like a ribcage,” Rian Robbins, a resident, said. “They were cleaning out the building, so I was like maybe it’s some old thing they threw out.”
Three days later, the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Williams was murdered with a gunshot to the head.
“The autopsy in this case reveals when they take her body out of the sleeping bag, a bullet falls out of the back of her head,” Chief Kenny said.
Police sources say Williams had been staying with Irish in a relationship they described was built around the use of drugs. The motive for the slaying remains unclear. Williams was set to start a new job at NYCHA on Monday, just days after she was murdered, cops said.
On July 8, Chief Kenny said that cops from the 13th Precinct responded to the Strauss Houses after locals recognized Irish for the crime and attempted to have their way with him, causing him to allegedly flash a handgun. Officers apprehended the suspect on the 9th floor and brought him down in the elevator, where EMS transferred him onto a stretcher as Williams’ family members and locals pounded their fists on the window.
Once outside enraged locals went after Irish, laying punch after punch and tearing at him as cops desperately struggled to push the mass of humanity away.
“You killed my daughter,” Nicole Williams hollered in pain. “Please kill him!”
Both the cops and the paramedics were able to shove the suspected killer into the back of the ambulance, but not before he was struck several more times. The group then banged their closed fists on the vehicle before it sped away.
“She was an angel. She was alive. And she’s gonna always shine,” mother Nicole Williams told amNewYork Metro. “She’s gonna live with me forever.”
So far Irish has been charged with the concealment of human corpse; however, additional charges are pending as police work to conduct a search of his home.
Additionally, police sources and locals report that while Irish utilizes a wheelchair he is still able to walk.
