Zapeta-Calil, 33, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a Coney Island train. Witnesses described his erratic behaviour influenced by K2 and alcohol.

Many have alleged that bystanders simply looked on and did nothing as an illegal Guatemalan immigrant set a sleeping straphanger on fire aboard a Brooklyn subway train. Footage of the incident shows at least three people looking on,

Law enforcement officials reported that the suspect was apprehended at a different Manhattan subway station approximately eight hours after the attack.

A man identified as a Guatemalan migrant was arrested after allegedly setting a woman on fire as she was sleeping in a New York subway car.

Sebastian Zapeta was charged with two counts of murder and one count of arson. A Southern California police department reminded the public that Proposition 36 went into effect last week by releasing a video from earlier this month of two shoplifting suspects talking about the new law while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.

According to the US Department of Homeland, 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta is a Guatemalan citizen who illegally entered America in 2018 and was deported to Guatemala a few days later

A video shows NYPD officers swarming a Manhattan subway train to apprehend Sebastian Zapeta, who has been accused of setting a sleeping subway rider ablaze.