India, Nov. 20 -- Federal prosecutors charged a man on Wednesday, November 19, with terrorism for allegedly setting a woman ablaze on a Chicago train. Charging documents filed in the U.S. District Court's Northern District of Illinois showed that Lawrence Reed, 50, is being charged with a federal count of committing a terrorist attack on a mass transit system, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Reed allegedly set a woman, 26, on fire as she rode on a CTA Blue Line train on Monday night, November 17. She was hospitalized in critical condition with severe injuries.

Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue Line L train when he approached the woman, who sat with her back to him, according to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Expl...