Dec 23, 2024 · Surveillance images captured by MTA cameras in the F train car allegedly show Sebastian Zapeta-Calil standing in the mostly empty F train car, his hands in his hoodie pockets, as flames...

Jan 7, 2025 · 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.

Jan 7, 2025 · 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...

Dec 27, 2024 · Sebastian Zapeta, the man accused of setting a homeless woman on fire in a Coney Island subway car, has been indicted on murder and arson charges.

Dec 24, 2024 · Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan migrant living in a Brooklyn men's shelter, made his first court appearance Tuesday to face murder charges.

Dec 27, 2024 · Zapeta is accused of lighting a still-unidentified woman aflame as she slept on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway terminal in Brooklyn, fanning the flames with a...

Dec 27, 2024 · Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, a Guatemalan citizen, allegedly set the woman on fire as she was sleeping on a stationary F train at the Stillwell Avenue Subway Station the morning of Dec. 22.

Dec 27, 2024 · Prosecutors say Zapeta-Calil, a Guatemalan man in the country illegally after he had been deported in 2018, approached a woman sitting on a subway car in Brooklyn early Sunday morning, set her...

Dec 23, 2024 · Zapeta, 33, was charged Monday with first and second degree murder and arson after the New York City Police Department arrested the suspect on Sunday hours after the incident at the Coney...

Dec 26, 2024 · A suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, is facing murder and arson charges in New York City for allegedly setting a woman on fire inside a subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames, police said Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.