Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack, alleging he poured gasoline on a woman and chased her through a Chicago train car before setting her on fire .

Lawrence Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue Line L train Monday night when he approached the woman as she sat with her back to him and doused her with gasoline from a plastic beverage bottle, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.

The 26-year-old woman fought off the man as he tried to ignite the gas, the complaint states. She then ran from one end of the car to the other as Reed chased her, investigators said, citing surveillance video from the train. Reed eventually caught with her, at which point he ignited the bottle and used it to set her on fire, according to th

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