NYC Teen Gets 5½ Years For Setting Sleeping Subway Rider On…

Bus Crash New York City New York in New York City, New York: A 19-year-old New York City high school senior was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for setting a sleeping homeless man on fire aboard a Manhattan subway train. The victim, who had fallen asleep in the subway car in the early-morning hours, woke up engulfed in flames and ran through the car before escaping at Times Square, where first responders and MTA personnel extinguished the fire and rushed him to a hospital. The victim suffered extensive, permanent burn injuries, with prosecutors describing the attack as separated from murder by mere chance. The teen was sentenced to more than the mandatory minimum, with prosecutors having urged up to eight years.