Sebastian Zapeta, the Guatemalan man accused of lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire and watching her burn to death on a Brooklyn subway car, was arraigned Tuesday.

Sebastian Zapeta, the migrant accused of fatally setting homeless woman Debrina Kawam on fire on a Coney Island subway train, pleaded not guilty Tuesday — even as court papers revealed he said ...

Zapeta, 33, came to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2018, and was deported, but subsequently reentered the country and made his way to New York City.

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and arson charges in the killing of Debrina Kawam. By Ben Brachfeld. Published on January 7, 2025 05:02PM EST.

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway, often ‘bugged out’ after smoking K2, shelter roommate says By . Jack Morphet and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon.

Zapeta was taken into custody hours after the incident on Dec. 22, after teenagers in Midtown Manhattan identified him on the subway and reported him to authorities.

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil repeatedly told detectives he had no memory of an attack that killed a woman who was set ablaze on the New York City subway train he was riding the morning of December 22 ...

The man accused of setting a woman ablaze on the New York City subway has pleaded not guilty after claiming he was too drunk to remember committing the crime.. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, was ...

Zapeta-Calil pleaded not guilty to the charges and is due back in court in March. “I am very sorry,” he allegedly told NYPD detectives. “I didn’t mean to. But I really don’t know.

After a night of boozing it up, Zapeta-Calil told cops, he got on the F train early on the morning of the attack. “Then, being about 8 or 9 in the morning, I stayed on 18th Avenue,” he ...

Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil who set woman on fire on NYC subway train shocked to see video of attack (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)(AP) Zapeta-Calil set a sleeping woman, 57-year-old ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil repeatedly told detectives he had no memory of an attack that killed a woman who was set ablaze on the New York City subway train he was riding the morning of December 22 ...