Zapeta was arraigned before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun on first-degree murder and arson charges Tuesday.
Sebastian Zapeta, the Guatemalan man accused of lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire and watching her burn to death on a Brooklyn subway car, was arraigned Tuesday.
The suspect is accused of setting a sleeping woman's clothes on fire, using his shirt to fan the flames and then sitting on a ...
In December 2024, a woman was brutally set on fire in a New York City subway. She has now been identified as 57-year-old Toms ...
A man accused of setting a sleeping woman on fire and killing her on a New York subway is scheduled to be arraigned on murder ...
Her name was Debrina Kawam; she was a 57-year-old woman experiencing homelessness in New York City, trying to sleep and keep ...
One glances at the burning woman but makes no move to help her; the other strides in the other direction, speaking into a ...