{"id":428284,"date":"2025-12-06T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428284\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:21:23","slug":"teen-accused-of-setting-homeless-man-on-fire-on-nyc-subway-idd-by-distinctive-mustache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428284\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen accused of setting homeless man on fire on NYC subway ID\u2019d by \u2018distinctive mustache\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police used body-camera footage from an October traffic stop to track down the teen suspected of setting a homeless man on fire<\/a> on a Manhattan subway train, identifying him in part based on his \u201cdistinctive mustache,\u201d prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

Hiram Carrero, 18, who was caught on MTA surveillance cameras setting fire to the sleeping victim on a northbound No. 2 train at 34th St.-Penn Station on Monday, was cited by the NYPD for bicycling through a red light on Oct. 21, court documents show.<\/p>\n

Investigators compared body-cam footage recorded during the traffic stop to the footage of Monday\u2019s arson, in which Carrero can be seen wearing the same hat, backpack and gray sweatshirt, in addition to sporting the distinctive stache in both recordings, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

\"NewlyNewly unveiled surveillance images show suspected arsonist Hiram Carrero aboard a northbound No. 2 train, on which he allegedly used a lit piece of paper to ignite the clothes of a sleeping homeless man. (US Attorney’s Office)<\/p>\n

Carrero was arrested in Manhattan Thursday.<\/a> He was ordered held without bail Friday after prosecutors appealed a ruling by Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger, who at Carrero\u2019s arraignment hours earlier, had ordered the defendant released \u2014 reportedly due to mental health issues \u2014 and given him two weeks to post $100,000 bond, a law enforcement official confirmed to the Daily News. In response to the appeal, Manhattan Federal District Judge Valerie Caproni promptly ordered Carrero remanded to custody.<\/p>\n

The teen is charged with arson resulting in the injury of another person, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 40 years, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs alleged, Hiram Carrero committed a horrific arson, starting a fire inside of a New York City subway car where a victim was sleeping,\u201d U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said. \u201cAs a result of that arson, the victim has suffered severe injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe victim is shown with his legs engulfed in flames at the 42nd St.-Times Square station, after having been set on fire one stop earlier. (US Attorney’s Office)<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old victim was dozing aboard a northbound No. 2 train when, as the doors opened at the 34th St.-Penn Station subway stop in Midtown around 3 a.m., Carrero entered his car, cops said.<\/p>\n

Footage recorded inside the train shows the teen lighting a piece of paper on fire, which he placed beside the sleeping victim, and then exiting the train before it left the station, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\"RemnantsRemnants of burnt cloth are pictured at the Times Square-42nd St. subway station after a homeless man was set on fire while sleeping on a subway train in Manhattan early Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Video recorded inside the train shows the fire engulfing the victim\u2019s legs as the train approached the 42nd St.-Times Square stop, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

An off-duty train conductor alerted police after spotting smoke billowing off the seated victim when the doors opened at the stop about five minutes after the suspect started the fire.<\/p>\n

\"RemnantsRemnants of a melted MetroCard and burnt cloth are pictured after a homeless man was set on fire while sleeping on a train in Midtown Manhattan early Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Police officers at the station poured water on the victim to put out the flames, sources said.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the man to\u00a0NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center<\/a> for treatment of severe leg burns, cops said.<\/p>\n

At Carrero\u2019s Harlem home Friday evening, his mother, Wanda Carrero, 63, told the Daily News she had just returned from hearing her son\u2019s case in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got out of court,\u201d she said, breathing heavily. \u201cI\u2019m having an asthma attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked by The News what happened to her son, she said, \u201cI don\u2019t understand. My son is a kind and decent kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cutting short any further questions, she then slammed the apartment door.<\/p>\n

With Molly Crane-Newman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police used body-camera footage from an October traffic stop to track down the teen suspected of setting a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-428284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115671419437531480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}