Man Charged With Murder For Setting Another On Fire: Cops

BROOKLYN, NY — Cops have charged a Bronx man in the killing of a homeless man who was set on fire on a Brooklyn street last year.

Errol Stephenson, 28, was charged with murder over the weekend in the killing of Patrick Winkler, who was found on fire at the intersection of Schenectady Avenue and Rutland Road on a September night, according to police.

Officers used a fire extinguisher from their car to put out the flames, but Winkler died a month later at the Cornell Medical Center, police said.

Before he died, Winkler told police that a man he knew from the homeless shelter where he'd been staying in Manhattan had set him on fire, according to police and reports.

The two had started arguing on the Brooklyn street before the other man doused Winkler with an "accelerant" and lit the fire, police said.