The suspect who allegedly raped a dead man on board a Manhattan subway train earlier this month in an obscene case of necrophilia was arrested over the weekend, police announced Monday.
Felix Rojas, 44, of 79th Street in Brooklyn turned himself in to the 1st Precinct stationhouse in Lower Manhattan on Sunday after being on the lam since April 9. He was booked on a first-degree rape charge.
Law enforcement sources said Rojas allegedly sexually abused the body of Jorge Gonzalez, a 37-year-old straphanger who had apparently died on board the southbound R train they were riding through the Financial District at 2 a.m. on April 9. The incident was caught on security cameras on board the train.
Sources familiar with the depraved incident reported that Rojas allegedly penetrated the corpse in multiple orifices before finally fleeing the train car.
Following the incident, another commuter pilfered property from Gonzalez’s remains before an MTA staff member finally discovered Gonzalez and sought help.
According to the New York Daily News, Gonzalez’s estranged wife believes her husband perished from cirrhosis resulting from alcoholism.
“Slowly, he just became an alcoholic,” said Teresa Gonzalez, who told the paper she had not seen her husband in five years. “He was putting the alcohol over everything else.”
An official cause of death was never given.
Donning a blue baseball cap, black hooded jacket, a yellow hooded sweatshirt, and blue jeans, Rojas became the face of depravity in the New York subway system as the news of the nauseating incident made headlines.
