A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die is awaiting arraignment.

In a horrifying incident that has left New Yorkers grappling with questions of responsibility and inaction, a woman was set on fire aboard a Brooklyn .

Surveillance footage showed the victim sleeping on an immobile F train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station around 7:30 a.m. Zapeta-Calil, who was sitting across from her, then allegedly set her and the blanket she was underneath on fire, CNN reported, citing a complaint from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

The "person of interest" was taken into custody hours after the attack while riding another train, according to NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta.

Calil, an illegal migrant from Guatemala, calmly approached a woman on a New York subway and lit her clothes on fire, with surveillance footage showing the man

Calil, 33, of Guatemala was charged Monday afternoon with murder after authorities say he approached a woman on a train in Brooklyn and ignited her clothes.

A suspect is in custody after the incident on an F train in Brooklyn on Sunday morning. Officers found a woman "fully engulfed in flames."

New York City police have a person in custody who is suspected to have lit a woman on fire in the subway and then watched from a bench as she became engulfed in flames and died

A man identified as a person of interest in the killing of a woman set on fire while sleeping in a subway car, Sebastian Zapeta, has been taken into NYPD custody.