A migrant from Guatemala allegedly lit a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and stuck around to watch her burn to death just three days before Christmas.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The NYPD is working to identify a woman who died after she was lit on fire on an F subway train in Brooklyn on Sunday. The victim was burned so badly that teeth will likely be needed to identify her, according to authorities.

The shake-ups among top NYPD leadership continued Saturday as Commissioner Jessica Tisch removed the head of the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. The ousting of Chief of Internal Affairs Miguel Iglesias came just one day after Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey submitted his resignation before being accused of trading substantial overtime approvals for sexual favors.

New York City’s newly minted top cop Jessica Tisch has wasted no time cleaning house at 1 Police Plaza, bouncing brass and nixing cushy perks for others not even a month into the job.

Top staff shakeups are par for the course under a new police commissioner, but the storm of resignations and reassignments at the NYPD over the past three days — including Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey stepping down amid bombshell sexual misconduct allegations — served as a shock to the system with the head of the Internal Affairs Bureau the latest high-ranking cop to get the ax.

New York City Police Department Chief Jeffrey Maddrey resigned on Dec. 20 after an employee, Lt. Quathisha Epps, accused him of sexual misconduct, including coercing her into ‘performing unwanted sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities.

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey has resigned following a bombshell allegation of sexual misconduct on the job.

Police officials said a man considered a person of interest in Sunday’s deadly train fire was in custody hours after allegedly starting the blaze that killed a sleeping woman. The woman was discovered around 7:30 a.

It was like something out of the horrors of New York City’s past. At half past seven yesterday morning, a man approached a woman sleeping on a Coney Island F train. The man proceeded to light the woman on fire, according to police, and then calmly watched her burn to death as transit police attempted to extinguish the flames.

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