Horrifying scenes as woman on the subway dies after being set on fire in broad daylight
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A sleeping woman was killed after her body was set aflame on the New York City subway, police said. The incident happened Sunday morning at a station in Coney Island, where an F train carrying the victim had been idling. The woman did not die immediately - only succumbing to her injuries after cops found her burning to death at the scene.
![[They have since discerned an unknown man caught on camera at the station lit her on fire at 7:29 am, spurring a homicide investigation]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/19/93407507-14219343-image-a-16_1734895553938.jpg)
Officers at the scene after receiving a call of a woman needing assistance were seen using a tarp to cover up one of the train's windows - seemingly to block a view of the grisly scene. They have since discerned an unknown man caught on camera at the station lit her on fire at around 7:29 am, sparking a homicide investigation.
![[No information was readily available about the female victim, and the suspect's motive - if any - remains unclear. He is seen here again in the third of three photos being circulated since the incident]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/19/93407543-14219343-image-m-17_1734895705474.jpg)
By the time they arrived, the woman was already engulfed, officers said in a statement hours later - as they continued to search for the culprit seen in surveillance footage taken from the scene. Officers added how the woman was found with a litany of liquor bottles - though law enforcement sources who spoke to The New York Post said investigators remain stumped as to whether that played a part in the fire.
![[The woman, cops said, did not die immediately - only succumbing to her injuries after cops found her burning to death at the scene]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/19/93407515-14219343-image-a-2_1734895362324.jpg)
Police also revealed how they put out the fire out before the woman died from her injuries, at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station. That was around 7:30am, minutes after the still-at-large man walked by the unnamed woman and threw a match. The man, said to have entered the train while it was pulled in, fled the station. Photos of him have since been released, as he remains at-large.
![[Officers at the scene after receiving a call of a woman needing assistance were seen using a tarp to cover up one of the train's windows - seemingly to block a view of the grisly scene]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/19/93407837-14219343-image-a-21_1734896323867.jpg)
