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, Hiram Carrero, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for setting a sleeping homeless man on fire aboard a Manhattan subway train. Carrero boarded the train, picked up a piece of paper, lit it, and used it to ignite the sleeping victim, whose clothing quickly caught fire inside the moving subway car. The victim suffered critical burns and extensive scarring; prosecutors said his survival was a matter of chance. The case was prosecuted federally because the subway system receives federal funding.