Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with terrorism for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a Chicago train.

According to charging documents filed in the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of Illinois, 50-year-old Lawrence Reed is being charged with a federal count of committing a terrorist attack on a mass transit system.

He is accused of setting a 26-year-old woman on fire as she rode on a CTA Blue Line train on Monday night, with the woman hospitalized in critical condition with severe injuries.

Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue Line L train on Monday night when he approached a woman as she sat with her back to him, according to a federal investigator’s arrest affidavit. He removed the cap from a plastic bottle, then doused the woman with what was believ

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