{"id":60978,"date":"2025-12-04T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60978\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:33:08","slug":"teen-arrested-for-allegedly-setting-nyc-homeless-man-on-fire-on-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60978\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested for allegedly setting NYC homeless man on fire on subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen was busted Thursday for allegedly setting a sleeping homeless man on fire on board a train passing through Midtown this week, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops nabbed the 18-year-old accused maniac in the East Village and were expected to charge him for the harrowing Monday attack, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The unhinged firebug stepped into a No. 3 train approaching 34th Street-Penn Station just after 3 a.m. and set the snoozing 56-year-old victim ablaze before taking off, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old who allegedly set a sleeping homeless man on fire aboard a subway train in Midtown was arrested on Thursday. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>The homeless victim was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center with significant burn injuries, cops said. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The teen suspect was seen in surveillance photos and video. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>The attack left the victim so badly scorched that cops found skin on one of the seats on the train, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center with significant burn injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance photos and video released by police a day later showed the suspected arsonist at the subway station, wearing a black hat, a gray hooded jacket, black pants, black boots and lugging a backpack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen was busted Thursday for allegedly setting a sleeping homeless man on fire on board a train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2000,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,4730,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-60978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-homelessness","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-subways","16":"tag-teens","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}