How sick and disgusting, if he's guilty execute him. Burned a women alive while she was sleeping on the subway.
A migrant from Guatemala was arrested in connection to the heinous death of a woman who was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday.
Sources identified the person of interest to Fox News Digital as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta.
While police did not identify the person of interest, a high-level NYPD source told Fox News Digital the individual entered the U.S. illegally from Guatemala in 2018, when President-elect Trump was president during his first term. The person of interest has no prior arrests in New York City and one prior arrest in Arizona, the source said, though details about the arrest were not available.
Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more information on Zapeta.
New York Police Department (NYPD) officials said no charges had been filed in the case during a Sunday evening press conference.
The NYPD said the killing happened at the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island at about 7:30 a.m.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, during a press conference on Sunday evening, provided more insight into the crime.
"As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim," she said, explaining that the female victim was in a seated position. "The suspect used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds."
Officers were on patrol at the station when they smelled and saw smoke, prompting them to investigate the situation.
When they arrived, Tisch noted, the officers saw a person standing inside the train car fully engulfed in flames. The flames were ultimately put out with the help of an MTA employee and a fire extinguisher. The victim was pronounced dead, the commissioner said.
Tisch also said the person of interest stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car.
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A migrant from Guatemala was arrested in connection to the heinous death of a woman who was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday.
Sources identified the person of interest to Fox News Digital as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta.
While police did not identify the person of interest, a high-level NYPD source told Fox News Digital the individual entered the U.S. illegally from Guatemala in 2018, when President-elect Trump was president during his first term. The person of interest has no prior arrests in New York City and one prior arrest in Arizona, the source said, though details about the arrest were not available.
Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more information on Zapeta.
New York Police Department (NYPD) officials said no charges had been filed in the case during a Sunday evening press conference.
The NYPD said the killing happened at the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island at about 7:30 a.m.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, during a press conference on Sunday evening, provided more insight into the crime.
"As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim," she said, explaining that the female victim was in a seated position. "The suspect used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds."
Officers were on patrol at the station when they smelled and saw smoke, prompting them to investigate the situation.
When they arrived, Tisch noted, the officers saw a person standing inside the train car fully engulfed in flames. The flames were ultimately put out with the help of an MTA employee and a fire extinguisher. The victim was pronounced dead, the commissioner said.
Tisch also said the person of interest stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car.
NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death
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