The person charged with setting a lady on hearth and killing her as she slept on a New York Metropolis subway automotive is due in court docket on Friday.
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, made his first court docket look on Tuesday and was held with out bail. He has not entered a plea.
Zapeta-Calil was arrested on Monday and charged with first-degree homicide, second-degree homicide and first-degree arson.
Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a lady on hearth inside a New York Metropolis subway prepare, seems in court docket, Dec. 24, 2024, in New York.
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Round 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the unidentified sufferer was asleep on a stationary F prepare in Brooklyn when a person approached her and lit her garments on hearth with a lighter, police mentioned.
Authorities don’t consider the 2 knew one another and didn’t have a earlier interplay, police mentioned.
Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a lady on hearth inside a New York Metropolis subway prepare, seems in court docket, Dec. 24, 2024, in New York.
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The suspect left the subway automotive after the incident, however photographs of him had been captured on officers’ physique cameras as a result of the suspect stayed on the scene, sitting on a close-by bench, in accordance with police. These photographs had been launched as police requested the general public’s help in figuring out the person.
Three highschool college students acknowledged him and contacted police, authorities mentioned.
Zapeta-Calil was taken into custody in a subway automotive at Manhattan’s Herald Sq. on Sunday night. Police mentioned he was discovered with a lighter in his pocket.
Zapeta-Calil, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, in accordance with a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He informed authorities he doesn’t know what occurred, however he recognized himself within the surveillance photographs.
