Investigators say 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan citizen who ICE officials say entered the U.S. illegally, used a lighter to set the sleeping woman's clothes on fire. CBS News New York's Lori Bordonaro reports.

The fire spread through the train car at the terminal, according to photos reviewed by Gothamist. Officers patrolling the station saw and smelled the smoke, and with the help of an MTA employee, used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. Police said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police in Brooklyn are on the hunt for the depraved killer who lit a woman on fire as she slept on a F train, burning her to death on Sunday morning. The horrifying incident occurred on board a stationary F train in Coney Island’s Stillwell Avenue subway station at around 7:30 a.

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.

Authorities are revealing more details surrounding the killing of a woman who was set on fire while sleeping on the New York City subway​.

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train used a shirt to fan the flames, a prosecutor said Tuesday at his arraignment on murder charges.

A man accused of lighting a woman’s clothes on fire aboard a New York City subway was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on Tuesday for first and second degree murder charges in addition to arson according to the Associated Press.