Sebastian Zapeta is accused by prosecutors of lighting the woman on fire on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station Sunday morning, then fanning the flames with a shirt.

NEW YORK - The man accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Brooklyn subway train is due back in court Friday. Investigators say the unidentified victim was sleeping when Sebastian Zapeta, 33, used a lighter to set her clothes on fire.

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, has been indicted on murder and arson charges after allegedly setting a woman on fire aboard a subway train in Brooklyn. The horrifying attack, described by NYPD officials as “depraved,” occurred at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.

Police arrested a man who allegedly lit a sleeping homeless woman on fire in a Brooklyn subway car Sunday morning, then watched calmly as she burned to death, NYPD officials said. Chilling video obtained by the Daily News shows the woman standing near the door of a stopped subway car at the Coney-Island-Stillwell Ave.

The suspect is already facing arson and murder charges. As CBS News New York's Lori Bordonaro reports, community leaders held a vigil on Thursday to honor the victim.

The man accused of lighting a woman on fire in a New York City subway car has been indicted on murder and arson charges.

A grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally setting a woman on fire a New York City subway train, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. Investigators said Sebastian Zapeta, 33,

The man accused of killing a woman who was sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire was indicted by a grand jury on Friday of murder and arson charges, prosecutors announced.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said that a grand jury having to watch video of a woman burning to death on the subway was "very hard to deal with."