A man is facing murder 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.

The man accused of killing a woman on a New York City subway train by setting her on fire was charged with murder and arson in an initial court appearance on Tuesday.

A suspect is in custody after the incident on an F train in Brooklyn on Sunday morning. Officers found a woman "fully engulfed in flames."

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.

New York City police have arrested a man on murder and arson charges in the death of a woman who was set on fire inside a subway train early Sunday morning

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die has been arraigned.

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. The woman, who has not been identified, sat motionlessly aboard a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn at about 7:30 a.

Federal immigration officials said the accused, Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan citizen, entered the U.S. illegally after he was previously deported in 2018.