Yazmeen Williams’ ‘killer’ Chad Irish is attacked by a mob of vigilantes as he is taken into police custody for brutal murder in New York

By Bethan Sexton for Dailymail.Com

16:49 09 July 2024, updated 16:51 09 July 2024

The suspect in the shooting of 31-year-old New Yorker Yazmeen Williams was brutally attacked by a vigilante group during his arrest.

Chad Irish, 55, is accused of murdering Williams and dumping her body in a trash heap outside a building on East 27th Street.

Her body was discovered wrapped in a sleeping bag on Friday. Medical examiners said she died of a gunshot wound to the head.

A shocking video shows an angry mob attacking a wheelchair-bound Irish man as he is being loaded into a police vehicle.

A crowd, including Williams’ family, waited for the suspect as he was pushed out of an apartment building on a stretcher.

When he appeared, one man shouted, “Don’t feed that damn wanker for weeks,” while others screamed, “Kill him!”

As he was pushed toward the door, the crowd pushed against the glass door and began banging on the glass and screaming.

The chaos only escalated further when Irish was escorted outside. Police struggled to hold back the crowd that was chanting “Come out!”

However, the police were soon overwhelmed as the mob chased him and began to rain blows on him.

A woman’s wailing could be heard as Irish tried to protest his innocence.

“You killed my daughter!” screamed Williams’ mother, Nicole, as he was loaded into the van and the crowd continued to bang on the sides of the vehicle.

“He looks like scum,” Nicole added, sobbing and gasping for air.

“They said she was dead. I passed out and the officer had to pick me up from the ground,” she told the New York Post.

“She is my baby. We must get justice for her. She did not deserve what happened to her.”

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Shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday, NYPD officers responded to a report of a suspicious package found amidst trash at the corner of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay in eastern Manhattan.

Shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday, NYPD officers responded to a report of a suspicious package found amidst trash at the corner of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay in eastern Manhattan.

Rian Robbins, the passerby who had the misfortune of making this gruesome discovery, said she was suspicious of the package because flies were circling over it.

“I walked by and turned around. There were flies buzzing around everywhere. And I saw what looked like a ribcage,” Rian Robbins told AMNY.

“They were cleaning out the building, so I thought maybe it was some old item they threw away.”

Robbins said the body was left lying on what appeared to be a cart. “It was on a cart that was tied to the thing,” Robbins said.

“It was big and bloated, like it had been in the water.”

Horrified onlookers in the lobby of a nearby building also filmed a disturbing video of police officers cutting open the body bag on the street.

Ted Oehmke, who also witnessed police cutting open the bag, gave DailyMail.com gruesome details of his observations.

“There was a hole cut in the top of the bag and what looked like the top of a head,” 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 the perpetrator had gone to great lengths to wrap the weapon and leave it lying around openly,” Oehmke added.

“But I was quite surprised to see it lying there in the regular trash, as if the garbage collectors were taking it away.”

Officials believed the body had been lying on the street for some time because other residents had reported a stench in the area before Robbins.

NYPD officers cordoned off the area while forensic teams combed the crime scene.