A person of interest was taken into custody after a woman died after being lit on fire while she was asleep on an F train in Brooklyn, police say.

The woman was sleeping on a train car in Brooklyn on Sunday morning when a man approached her, lit her aflame and ran, police said.

Police arrested a man who allegedly lit a sleeping homeless woman on fire in a Brooklyn subway car Sunday morning, then watched calmly as she burned to death, NYPD officials said.

Police officials said a man considered a person of interest in Sunday’s deadly train fire was in custody hours after allegedly starting the blaze that killed a sleeping woman. The woman was discovered around 7:30 a.

The "person of interest" was taken into custody hours after the attack while riding another train, according to NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta.

A migrant from Guatemala allegedly lit a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and stuck around to watch her burn to death just three days before Christmas.

New York City police are seeking a man they believe is connected to the death of a woman who was sleeping on a stationary subway train before she was intentionally lit on fire

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Police arrested a man they said set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on a New York City subway train on Sunday morning, killing her. The woman, who has not been identified, sat motionlessly aboard a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn at about 7:30 a.

Police have arrested a person of interest in the killing of a sleeping passenger by setting her on fire on a New York City subway train. NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch provides more details on the arrest.