A teenager found unconscious on top of a New York City subway train has died. New York City Police were called to the Queensboro Plaza Subway Station at 2:47 a.m. on Friday and discovered ...

America was shaken when an illegal Guatemalan immigrant set a sleeping straphanger on fire aboard a Brooklyn subway train in December 2024. 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil set 57-year-old ...

Sebastian Zapeta is pictured during his indictment for the murder of Debrina Kawam at Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Shawn Inglima / New York Daily News) ...

Suspect was living in the US illegally Zapeta, whose charge of first-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life without parole, was living in the U.S. illegally after being deported in 2018.

Sebastian Zapeta is arraigned in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Zapeta is facing murder and arson charges for allegedly setting Debrina Kawam on fire as she slept on a New York ...

Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train, appears in court, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Curtis Means via Pool) AP ...

A grand jury last month indicted Zapeta, 33, on one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and arson in the first degree, according to court records.

Zapeta, whose charge of first-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life without parole, was living in the U.S. illegally after being deported in 2018. He had been staying at a homeless ...

BROOKLYN (CN) — Sebastian Zapeta, the man accused of killing a homeless woman by setting her on fire on a Coney Island-bound subway train, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and arson charges.

The man accused of fatally lighting a subway rider on fire in Coney Island last month pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and arson charges in Brooklyn state court. Sebastian Zapeta, 33 ...