NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Police have taken a suspect into custody who is accused of fatally setting a woman on fire while she rested aboard a Coney Island subway train on Sunday morning, officials announced during a press conference later in the day.
The suspect and victim were on an F train that was approaching the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn at about 7:30 a.m. when the incident occurred, law enforcement officials said.
The woman was sitting and motionless, apparently sleeping, as the train pulled into the end-of-the-line station. She was then approached by the unknown man who used a lighter to spark her clothes, which went up in flames in seconds, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
Officers were patrolling the platform when they smelt smoke, and upon moving toward the smell, they saw a commotion and discovered the woman ablaze.
She was on fire and surrounded by liquor bottles when officers arrived, …