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

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.

The NYPD is working to identify a woman who died after she was lit on fire on an F subway train in Brooklyn on Sunday. The victim was burned so badly that teeth will likely be needed to identify her,

A man identified as a person of interest in the killing of a woman set on fire while sleeping in a subway car, Sebastian Zapeta, has been taken into NYPD custody.

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 is facing murder and arson charges in New York City for allegedly setting a woman on fire inside a subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames, police said Monday. The suspect,

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged with murder and arson after a woman sleeping on the New York City subway was set on fire and died, police say.

A 33-year-old Guatemalan citizen was charged with murder and arson on Monday after allegedly lighting a woman on fire and watching her burn to death on a New York City subway train over the weekend, police and federal officials said.