The Guardian Angels have resumed patrolling New York City subway cars after a sleeping passenger was burned to death on a train last week.

Founded by Curtis Sliwa in 1979 to combat widespread violence and crime in city’s subway system, the Guardian Angels said “hundreds of citizens” requested their return after a woman was burned to death Dec. 22 inside a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station, PIX 11 reported.

A Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally has been charged with the murder.

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