UPDATE: Guatemalan Migrant Arrested For Immolating Sleeping Woman on New York Subway (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
A migrant from Guatemala was arrested on Sunday on allegations of lighting a sleeping woman on fire on a New York subway.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that the woman was asleep on the train as she was lit on fire by the suspect at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.
According to police sources who spoke with The New York Post, a member of the public identified the suspected killer as he rode on a train at 34th Street in Manhattan.
Meanwhile, city transportation authority security chief Michael Kemper said at a news conference Sunday that a “person of interest is in custody.”
“There must be strong, swift consequences on this person,” Kemper said. “There is no room in civilized society for people like him to be walking around.”
The POS arrested for lighting a sleeping woman on fire in the NYC subway is a Guatemalan illegal.
Just today Gov. Kathy Hochul was raving about how safe the subways are. pic.twitter.com/1l786GWyJZ
— Sara Rose (@saras76) December 22, 2024
He is not yet understood to have been charged with a crime.
The migrant is believed to have crossed the border back in 2018, although it is unclear whether he entered illegally.
Shocking footage circulating across social media showed a man lighting the sleeping woman on fire at around 7.30am on Sunday morning, watching her burn to death in the process.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that the man “calmly walked up to the victim and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing.”
Hey @RepJeffries @JustinBrannan apparently a woman was set on fire earlier today in the NYC subway in your district. She died.
Do you have any comment or plan to prevent future incidents like this?pic.twitter.com/0yhfBGZPvx
— Reza Chowdhury (@RezaC1) December 22, 2024
Investigators who turned up at the scene immediately declared the woman as deceased. Her body was surrounded by liquor bottles, although it unclear whether they played any role in their death.
Authorities eventually removed the woman via a body bag and wheeled it outside.
#BREAKING: The man who set an innocent woman on fire on the New York Subway, Sebastian Zapeta, is a recent “MIGRANT” from Guatemala
The Biden regime REFUSED to deport him, and an innocent woman lost her life as a result.
MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW! pic.twitter.com/hldNzVMz4r
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 22, 2024
The victim has not yet been formally identified.
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