Sebastian Zapeta, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, has been charged with first-degree murder and arson after allegedly setting a woman on fire on a subway train in New York City. Surveillance video captured the suspect calmly setting the victim's clothing ablaze before exiting the train car. Zapeta was previously deported in 2018 but reportedly re-entered the country illegally.
According to a spokesperson for ICE, the suspect is an undocumented immigrant from GuatemalaDan Krauth has the latest on the woman who was burned to death by man on a subway.over the weekend.
According to a spokesperson for ICE, Zapeta is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. He last lived in a homeless shelter in East New York, Brooklyn. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the suspect and the woman had been riding an F train without any interaction between them to the end of the line in Brooklyn at around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Unbeknownst to the officers, the suspect had remained at the scene and was seated on a bench on the subway platform, just outside the train car, Tisch said. Body cameras worn by the officers caught a "very clear, detailed look" at the suspect and those images were publicly disseminated.
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