Woman sleeping on subway burned alived by a Guatemalan migrant.
A Guatemalan migrant suspected of setting a woman on fire aboard a New York City subway train has been arrested, according to a report by the New York Post.
Sources within the New York City Police Department (NYPD) told the Post that officers located and detained the suspect after a civilian identified him while he was riding another train. The horrifying incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. on the F train, where investigators believe the woman was asleep when the man allegedly approached her and tossed a lit match onto her.
Construction manager Alex Gureyev told the outlet that the city’s safety situation has worsened in recent years, describing muggings, killings, and shootings as increasingly common. “It’s going downhill a bit,” Gureyev said. “Everybody keeps saying it’s going back to the seventies. It’s a frequent occurrence — not like this, setting people on fire — but the muggings, the killings, the shootings, they’re really common nowadays.”
NBC New York reported that officers discovered the woman’s body fully engulfed in flames on an F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch condemned the attack, calling it “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) criticized city officials for downplaying crime in the subway system. In a post on X, Torres expressed outrage over the attack and accused political leaders of misleading the public about safety conditions.
“In the F-Train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, a demented man lit a sleeping woman on fire with a match, causing the victim to burn alive and die at the scene,” Torres wrote. “In New York, dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway. Yet the political establishment insists on gaslighting the public with deceptive headlines: ‘crime is down’ and ‘the subways are safe.'”
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