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Horror as woman dies after being set on fire & burned alive while sleeping on NYC subway as attacker ‘watched her die’
A suspect was arrested after three high schoolers identified him and alerted the police
A WOMAN suffered a horrific death after she was set on fire while asleep on a New York subway.
The attacker calmly watched his victim burn to death after setting her ablaze at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in Brooklyn in front of shocked commuters.
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A suspect was arrested following what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”
The woman was riding an F train in Coney Island when the man allegedly threw a lit match at her.
She was found burning alive in the middle of the train after passengers smelled smoke at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station.
"What they saw was a person standing inside the train car fully engulfed in flames," New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference.
Horrific footage shows the suspect watching as the woman was engulfed by flames, the reports.
The man was brazenly sitting on a nearby bench while police officers were desperately trying to find out what happened shouting ", “Did anybody see anything? Did anybody see anything?”
The officers used fire extinguishers to put out the fire and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency responders.
She was found with liquor bottles surrounding her, though it was not immediately clear if they played any part in the fire, sources said.
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Transit police apprehended the suspect after receiving a report from three high school students who had recognized the man.
Other transit officers identified the man on another subway train and radioed ahead to the next station
They had seen images of the suspect taken from surveillance and police body cam video and widely distributed by police.
Other transit officers identified the man on another subway train and radioed ahead to the next station.
The man had a lighter in his pocket when he was taken into custody.
Horrified commuters were shocked to see the woman being carted out of the station.
A worker at the subway station told the : "I was just walking by. The cops were there already.
"I didn’t see her in flames but that’s what I heard. It was out. They shut the lights off [in the car] so nobody could see."
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Police said they were still investigating the victim's identity and the reason for the attack.
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