They say authorities have arrested the man sleeping woman set on fire Inside the Coney Island F train Sunday morning, The Post has learned.
Police sources say a citizen identified the suspected killer as he was traveling by train at 34th Street in Manhattan.
The witness alerted police, who later picked up the suspect and took him into custody.
Sources said he has not yet been charged with any crime.
He is suspected of setting the woman on fire at around 7.30 am on Sunday morning. watch him burn to death In a shocking murder just three days before Christmas.
A video from the scene shows police spoke to him briefly, but told him to evacuate the area immediately after the attack.
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