Critics are sounding the alarm over the "Daniel Penny effect" happening after a woman was burned alive on an NYC subway train ...

Officers on a routine patrol at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station smelled and saw smoke and discovered the woman on fire, standing in the middle of the subway car. After the fire was ...

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die has been arraigned.

A man accused of lighting a woman’s clothes on fire aboard a New York City subway was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on ...

Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan migrant living in a Brooklyn men’s shelter, made his first court appearance Tuesday to face ...

Police have defended their response, beginning when officers patrolling the station smelled and saw smoke coming from the F ...

Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil was arraigned on murder charges Tuesday for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a New York City ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil "fanned the flames" after allegedly setting a woman on fire on the subway, prosecutors said.

The woman, who has not been identified, died after a man set her on fire on an F train on Sunday morning. The police have ...