High school senior gets 5 years in prison for setting man on fire on NYC subway

NBC New York, reporting from the Associated Press, covers the sentencing of 19-year-old Hiram Carrero to 5½ years in prison for setting a homeless man on fire aboard a NYC subway train on December 1, 2025. The article is well-sourced with specific details: the judge's name (Lewis J. Liman), the guilty plea in March, prosecutors' actual arguments and sentencing request (up to 8 years), the victim's condition (critically injured with permanent scarring), and the defense's mitigation arguments regarding Carrero's troubled background. Gothamist's independent coverage corroborates the core facts—the sentence length, the defendant's age at sentencing, and the guilty plea to federal arson charges—though independent search results include unrelated subway crime stories that do not pertain to this specific case. Readers should monitor the victim's recovery status and any civil claims that may follow, as well as the broader pattern of transit violence the article mentions but does not elaborate on in detail.