Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan citizen, is facing murder and arson charges for allegedly setting a woman on fire inside a subway train in Brooklyn. Surveillance video captured the suspect approaching the motionless woman and setting her clothing ablaze. He remained at the scene, watching her burn, while police and a transit worker extinguished the flames. Zapeta was arrested later Sunday after being recognized by high school students who saw images of the suspect circulated by police.
FILE - New York Police officers clear a train at the Coney Island Stillwell Avenue Terminal, May 5, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
The suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, was taken into custody hours after the woman died on Sunday morning. Surveillance video showed the suspect approach the woman, who was sitting motionless and may have been sleeping, on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn and set her clothing on fire, police said.
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