{"id":342282,"date":"2026-03-03T21:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/police-seek-2-suspects-after-sleeping-man-is-set-on-fire-near-new-yorks-penn-station"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:46:03","slug":"police-seek-2-suspects-after-sleeping-man-is-set-on-fire-near-new-yorks-penn-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/police-seek-2-suspects-after-sleeping-man-is-set-on-fire-near-new-yorks-penn-station","title":{"rendered":"Police search 2 suspects after sleeping man is ready on hearth close to New York\u2019s Penn Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">NEW YORK &#8212; <\/span>Police were searching Tuesday for two suspects believed to have been involved in an attack near Manhattan&#8217;s Penn Station when a 37-year-old man was set on fire as he slept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">New York City Police said three men approached the sleeping man around 8:40 p.m. on Monday and lit his clothing on fire before fleeing into the Amtrak train station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Emergency personnel extinguished the flames and brought the man to the hospital in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Amtrak confirmed that its police are working with NYPD to investigate the incident, providing no further details. Various media outlets reported that a third suspect has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The attack is the latest in a string of incidents of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-woman-burned-train-4e43a526e3b93c217beca1d150c5ec1d\">people being lit ablaze<\/a> on public transit across the country. In December, a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/subway-fire-arson-new-york-85a161a4ce2470f4112657e88c1c88fe\">New York City high school senior was arrested<\/a> on a federal arson charge after authorities said he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A sleeping woman on a stopped New York subway car <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/subway-burning-new-york-city-ba86c7c219012529b31a0dd0298d7cd4\">died in 2024<\/a> after a man lit her on fire and then fanned the flames with a shirt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/police-seek-2-suspects-after-sleeping-man-set-130736389\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Police were searching Tuesday for two suspects believed to have been involved in an attack near Manhattan&#8217;s Penn Station when a 37-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20031,20029,433,419,4835,8196,14720,20032,20030,20033,20028],"class_list":["post-342282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-commonwealth-system-of-higher-education","tag-manhattans-penn-station","tag-media-retailers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-metropolis-police","tag-new-yorks-penn-station","tag-pennsylvania-state-university","tag-police-search","tag-state-college-pennsylvania","tag-york-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342284,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282\/revisions\/342284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}