NEW YORK (PIX11) -- A person of interest is in custody in connection to the death of a woman on a subway in Brooklyn Sunday morning, according to the NYPD.
The woman was asleep on a stopped F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station around 7:30 a.m. Sunday when a stranger lit her on fire, police said.
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Officers at the station reportedly smelled and saw smoke and observed the victim in the train car fully engulfed in flames, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.