Migrant Accused Of Burning Sleeping Woman On N.Y.C. Subway Indicted On

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An empty New York Subway car is seen on March 23, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
9:53 AM – Friday, December 27, 2024

The illegal migrant accused of lighting on fire and torching a sleeping woman on a Brooklyn subway train was officially indicted in court for murder and arson on Friday morning.

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, an undocumented migrant from Guatemala, waived his appearance in court after being indicted on first and second degree murder as well as one count of arson for the horrifying Sunday killing aboard the F train.

33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, an illegal from Guatemala, is handcuffed and led out of a New York police station into a car and driven away.

Zapeta is accused of burning alive a woman Sunday on the subway.

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The first-degree murder charges carry the possibility of life without parole.

The accused killer allegedly went up to the sleeping woman, who has yet to be identified, and ignited her clothes, with videos on social media showing the accused killer fanning the flames as it engulfed her, according to officials.

He then left the subway and sat on a platform bench and was captured on the body camera of a responding officer.

That image was then posted to the public in a flier. After a few hours, three high schoolers saw him on the subway and called 911 and he was arrested.

Meanwhile, Zapeta-Calil will be formally arraigned at the state Supreme Court on January 7^th, where the entire indictment will be unsealed.

The accused murderer is described as a heavy drinker by his homeless shelter friends, he also told police he was drunk on the morning of the incident and doesn’t remember what happened.

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