A man in a creepy ‘Chucky’ doll mask accused of terrorizing and threatening women has been arrested in Las Vegas.
Zymire Hughes, 22, is accused of chasing over a dozen people in Center City Philadelphia on the morning of August 15.
Hughes asked women, “Are you ready to die?” as he chased them.
One woman severely injured her leg while fleeing from Hughes.
Hughes is facing charges of harassment, terroristic threats, simple assault, and intimidation.
The US Marshals helped local law enforcement track down Hughes at an apartment complex in Vegas.
“You think it’s funny to scare people? Well, get ready to get scared by us because we got the handcuffs, we got the jail cell, we got the Philly jury that’s going to tell you it’s not funny at all,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said on Thursday.
CBS News reported:
A man accused of terrorizing at least a half dozen people while wearing a Chucky-style mask near Philadelphia City Hall earlier this month was arrested Tuesday in Las Vegas, authorities said.
Zymire Hughes, 22, was arrested around 8 p.m. at an apartment complex in southeast Las Vegas and is being held in the Clark County Detention Center awaiting extradition back to Philadelphia, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
U.S. Marshals said Hughes has been a Las Vegas resident since February but has family in Philadelphia. They believe Hughes was in the city for a few weeks. He fled Philadelphia on Aug. 19 from Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing, New Jersey, to Orlando, Florida, and then took another flight to Vegas, they said.
“By hiding behind a Chucky-style Halloween mask, Hughes terrorized Philadelphia residents and believed he could evade law enforcement. He was wrong,” Robert Clark, the Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force, said. “His arrest should send a clear message: you can hide your face, but you can’t hide from the elite investigators of the U.S. Marshal Service.”
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