Passerby Throws Flaming Bottle Into Occupied Car: NYPD
Police are investigating after a Molotov cocktail was thrown into an occupied pickup truck in Harlem early Monday morning, engulfing the entire car in flames ad burning the driver's hadns, officiasl said.
A man driving a 2003 Dodge Durango was waiting for a parking spot near Malcolm X Boulevard and West 112th Street in Harlem at around 4 a.m. when another man came by with a flaming plastic bottle and chucked it into the vehicle, police said.
The Durango caught fire, and the driver tried to put out the flames himself. By the time police arrived, the entire vehicle was in flames, according to police.
The driver was found outside the pickup with burns to his hands. He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
No one has been arrested. The suspect is described as a man in his 30s, about 6 feet tall.
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