Burning of a sleeping woman in the New York subway: a migrant is charged
Kyiv • UNN
A 33-year-old Guatemalan citizen has been charged with the murder of a woman in the New York City subway who he set on fire with a lighter. The suspect, previously deported from the United States, watched the victim burn to death in the car.
On Monday, a 33-year-old Guatemalan national was charged with the murder and arson of a woman on the New York City subway over the weekend. According to police, he watched the woman burn to death on the train. This was reported by UNN with reference to Reuters.
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Sebastian Zapeta was arrested about six hours after police say he set fire to the clothes of a woman who appeared to be dozing on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn with a lighter.
On Monday, he was charged with murder and arson, police said.
The suspect reportedly entered the United States without authorization in 2018 and was deported to Guatemala a few days later. It is not known when he re-entered illegally, the US Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
Police said that there was no prior contact between the attacker, a Brooklyn resident, and the victim, who has not been identified.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that after Zapeta's release from a New York prison, he will be deported from the country.
Previously
A man reportedly set a strange woman on fire with a lighter in a Brooklyn subway car for no reason . The suspect, an immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested at another station following a tip from schoolchildren.
