Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan migrant was arrested for allegedly setting a sleeping subway passenger on fire, resulting in the victim's death.

A person of interest was taken into custody after a woman died after being lit on fire while she was asleep on an F train in Brooklyn, police say.

Migrant was arrested for setting a sleeping subway rider on fire and watching her burn to death in tragic NYC incident

The "person of interest" was taken into custody hours after the attack while riding another train, according to NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta.

New York City police say they have taken into custody a person of interest in the death of a woman who may have fallen asleep on a stationary subway train before being lit on fire by a man she didn’t

A person of interest was taken into custody after a woman died after being lit on fire while she was asleep on an F train in Brooklyn, police say.

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.

NYPD officials said a person of interest was arrested after allegedly using a lighter to set a woman who was sleeping in a subway car on fire in Coney Island, New York.