woman on fire subway video

 

Police have not yet been able to identify the victim.

NYPD describes the F train attack

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An image from New York City police of a man suspected of lighting a woman on fire as she slept in a subway car and killing her on Dec. 22, 2024. 

NYPD

Tisch said the person of interest was on an F train as it pulled up to the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn at around 7:30 a.m. She said he approached the sleeping woman, and then lit her on fire with what was believed to be a lighter. She added the victim's clothes became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds.

Police said there appeared to be no interaction between the victim and her attacker before she was lit on fire.

Tisch said nearby officers saw and smelled smoke and immediately went over to investigate and, with the help of an MTA worker, used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. EMS arrived shortly thereafter and pronounced the woman dead on the train.

Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the person of interest stayed at the scene and was spotted sitting on a bench on the platform just outside the train car. He was later apprehended without incident on another train that was stopped at Herald Square, Tisch said.

The person of interest was wearing the same clothes and was found with a lighter in his pocket, police added.

"This is amazing work done by the public and the police working together. Once again, someone saw something, we got it out through technology in numerous ways, and we were able to make a quick arrest on this nothing less than heinous crime that occurred in our subway system," NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta said.