A woman died Sunday in New York City after being engulfed in flames inside a stationary subway car.
The woman was discovered around 7:30 a.m. on an F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station.
Police officials arrested a suspect who authorities said intentionally set the woman on fire while she slept and watched her burn to death.
“Earlier this morning, tragedy struck on an F train near the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn New York when bystanders watched in horror as a sleeping woman was set on fire in a shocking act of violence. According to investigators, a man sitting across from her calmly lit a match, threw it on her as he passed by, and fled the station before anyone could react,” Rawsalerts wrote.
“Emergency responders arrived to find the woman engulfed in flames. Despite their efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene,” the post added.
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#BREAKING: Horrifying Video of a Bystander Discovering a Woman Fully Engulfed in Flames on the F Train After a Man Threw a Match at Her
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GRAPHIC: Horrific video shows woman burned alive on New York City subway
Cops say an unknown male set her ablaze as she slept Sunday morning pic.twitter.com/i6Lsl6uKxE
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From the New York Post:
In a horrifying video obtained by The Post, the man calmly looked on as flames engulfed the unidentified woman, who stood inside the open subway car door while the train idled at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.
A transit cop walked by, and seemed to pull out his radio and say something as he continued down the platform.
After the cop passed, the suspect — who police say stands about 5-foot, 6-inches tall, weighs around 150 pounds and is about 25 to 30 years-old — got up as if to walk away before the clip cut off.
In another video, cops yelled to the gathered crowd, “Did anybody see anything? Did anybody see anything?” as smoke poured from inside the subway car.
The suspect brazenly sat on a bench right in front of the door as cops huddled around it, pulling his hood up at one point just before an officer spoke to him.
“Do me a favor? Walk down there,” the cop said, motioning down the platform with his radio. “I need this space cleared up.”
Additional images of the suspect who allegedly set a woman on fire at NYC Subway and then sat across the platform and watched her burn. https://t.co/U9shP3x3Qy pic.twitter.com/EfifoCJ7LV
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“It’s scary,” a Brooklyn resident told the New York Post.
“It’s going downhill a bit. Everybody keeps saying it’s going back to the seventies. It’s a frequent occurrence — not like this, setting people on fire — but like the mugging, the killings, the fighting, the shootings, they’re really common nowadays. [It’s] very bad,” he continued.
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— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) December 22, 2024
The shocking death follows New York Gov. Kathy Hochul deploying an additional 750 National Guard troops into New York City subways, which makes 1,000 total troops in the subway system.
Per NBC New York:
Police believe the woman had been sleeping aboard the train when a man approached her and set her on fire by using a lighter to ignite her clothes. Responding officers found the woman standing inside the train car "fully engulfed in flames."
After the fire was extinguished, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
At a 5 p.m. police press conference, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced the apprehension of the person of interest.
Tisch said the person of interest "carried out one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being."
Investigators believe the suspect stayed at the scene and was seated on a bench directly outside of the train car.
ADVERTISEMENTThree high school-aged New Yorkers called 911 after spotted the alleged suspect on another moving train later in the day Sunday.
Officers boarded the train and located and arrested the person of interest, Tisch said. The man was allegedly found with a lighter in his pocket.
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