NYPD Arrests Guatemalan Migrant Who Allegedly Burned Woman Alive On Subway

The New York Police Department arrested a Guatemalan migrant in connection to a woman being burned alive on a NYC Subway.

Fox News reported that Sebastian Zapeta, 33, who entered the United States a year ago, was arrested in connection with the horrific crime.

Authorities have yet to charge Zapeta.

According to a police report, the suspect, who is believed to be Zapeta, allegedly “calmly walked up to the victim, and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds.”

This guy allegedly threw a lit match on a woman who was sleeping on the NYC subway this morning and set her on fire. He then sat down on bench across from where she was located and watched her die. Tell me again why mass deportation is a bad idea. pic.twitter.com/ZTIJkpCIft

— Sasswatch (@Sasswatcher) December 22, 2024

In the F Train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, a demented man lit a sleeping woman on fire with a match, causing the victim to burn alive and die at the scene.

In New York, dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway. Yet the political establishment insists on… pic.twitter.com/cr2cblL0Rx

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) December 22, 2024

Check out what Fox News reported:

A migrant from Guatemala was arrested in connection to the heinous death of a woman who was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday.

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Sources identified the person of interest to Fox News Digital as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta, saying he entered the U.S. from Guatemala approximately a year ago, but whether he did so legally or illegally was unclear.

Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more information on Zapeta.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officials said no charges had been filed in the case during a Sunday evening press conference.

The NYPD said the killing happened at the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island at about 7:30 a.m.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, during a press conference on Sunday evening, provided more insight into the crime.

“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim,” she said, explaining that the female victim was in a seated position. “The suspect used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds.”

NEW: The man suspected of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway has been identified as Sebastian Zapeta.

The man apparently sat on a bench and watched his victim burn.

Police, who clearly had no clue what was going on, reportedly told the man who is believed to… pic.twitter.com/dxYibgfncJ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 22, 2024

Per The New York Post:

A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”

The savage killing — which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station — shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime “took the life of an innocent New Yorker.”

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