Suspect Who Burned a Woman Alive on the NYC Subway ID'd as Migrant from Guatemala

Brittany M. Hughes | December 23, 2024
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Migrant crime isn't up. Our cities are safe. Our borders aren't open. "Asylum-seekers" are just good people who happen to have been born in a crappy country.

And pay no attention to that human matchstick on the F train.

In what might actually be one of the most shocking videos I've ever seen posted to social media - which, frankly, is saying something these days - several bystanders caught the moment a woman, who was reportedly homeless, went up in flames after being lit on fire by a lunatic as she was sleeping while riding the subway in New York City. In the videos, which I've intentionally declined to post here, the woman could be seen standing and even moving while completely engulfed in flames as a security guard calmly passes by, and the man who allegedly set her on fire with a lighter calmly seated himself on a nearby bench and simply watched her burn. First responders eventually showed up on the scene, where the woman was pronounced dead.

The horrific incident took place at the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island at about 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

Within hours, police had arrested 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta, identified as an illegal alien from Guatemala who arrived in the United States in 2018, after someone saw a man matching the suspect's description at another subway station not long after the woman was burned to death. Citing an NYPD source, Fox News reports Zapata "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."

Related: Hochul Brags About Subway Safety Hours After a Migrant Burned a Homeless Woman Alive on the Train

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who has recently expressed a desire to work with the incoming Trump administration to curb the rampant illegal alien crime in his city and across the country, issued a statement calling the attack "heinous."

"Grateful to the young New Yorkers and transit officers who stepped up to help our NYPD make a quick arrest following this morning's heinous and deadly subway attack," Adams wrote. "This type of depraved behavior has no place in our subways and we are committed to working hard to ensure there is swift justice for all victims of violent crime."