NYPD photographs of Jerome Isaac
A murder and arson suspect Jerome Isaac, 47, is pictured in surveillance photographs released to Reuters by the New York City Police Department, December 19, 2011. Isaac has been charged with murder and arson in the death of a Brooklyn woman who was set on fire in an elevator ambush, police said on Sunday. The suspect allegedly sprayed Deloris Gillespie, 73, with a flammable liquid on Saturday afternoon when her elevator stopped on the fifth floor of her apartment building, the New York Police Department said in a statement. Reuters

Jerome Isaac, the man accused of torching a woman in a Brooklyn elevator, has been ordered to undergo psychiatric help. Supreme Court Justice Desmond Green granted the request for psychiatric examination that was made by the lawyer defending Isaac.

My job is to consider all possible defenses, lawyer Howard Tanner said according to the New York Daily News. Isaac was indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder and arson charges. He did not appear in court.

Surveillance video shows that Isaac sprayed Delores Gillespie, his victim, with gasoline then lit her on fire with a lighter. Gillespie was 73-years-old. She had been in an ongoing dispute with Isaac who claimed she owed him money for handyman work.

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