Sebastian Zapeta, charged with murder in the fiery death of a woman on a Brooklyn subway, appeared in court and was ordered to remain jailed.
The suspect charged in the death of a woman who was set on fire Sunday inside a Brooklyn subway train made an initial court appearance Tuesday and will remain in custody.Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court. He appeared briefly before a judge and wore a white jumpsuit over a weathered black hooded sweatshirt. He did not speak.He will remain jailed ahead of his next court date on Friday. He was charged on Monday with murder, among other charges.
During Zapeta's court hearing on Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Ari Rottenberg said Zapeta at one point fanned the flames on the woman using his shirt. He said a 911 call from a subway rider helped identify Zapeta.Rottenberg added that under interrogation Zapeta claimed he didn’t know what happened, noting that he consumes alcohol. But he alleged that Zapeta identified himself to interrogators in images related to the attack.A Brooklyn address for Zapeta released by police matches a shelter that provides housing and substance abuse support. The shelter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The suspect was arrested by Border Patrol back on June 1, 2018, after he crossed illegally into Sonoita, Arizona. He was deported by the Trump administration just days later on June 7, ICE spokesperson Marie Ferguson told FOX News.'Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, is an unlawfully present Guatemalan citizen who entered the United States without admission by an immigration official,' a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said.Ferguson added that Zapeta then re-entered the U.S. illegally 'on an unknown date and location.'According to police, the victim, as well as the suspect, were both riding the F train just before 7:30 a.m. to the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island. Police do not believe the two knew one another.When the train stopped at the end of the line, police said the suspect calmly walked up to the seated woman and set her on fire with his lighte
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