Suspect in Murder of Woman Burned Alive on Subway Is Previously Deported Illegal Alien

by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:

The suspect whom police accuse of setting a sleeping woman ablaze on a New York subway train is an illegal alien from Guatemala.

And what’s worse, the New York Post revealed, he was deported under the Trump administration, only to jump the border again. Then he traveled to New York for free room and board, courtesy of city taxpayers.

Horrifying video posted to X shows the woman ablaze. And in something of a dark commentary on how out of touch far-left New York Democrats are, Governor Kathy Hochul told her followers on X how safe the city’s subways are … about eight hours after the woman was murdered.

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Worse still, the woman burned alive as passersby recorded her death on phones.

(NOTE: THE VIDEOS IN THE TWEETS BELOW ARE EXTREMELY DISTURBING.)

NEW: Per DHS sources, the suspect accused of burning a woman to death on a NYC subway is a Guatemalan illegal alien who was previously deported by the Trump administration and re-entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location. I’m told he was arrested by… pic.twitter.com/bWkmwdwhOz

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The Murder

Cops have identified Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, a Guatemalan, illegal-alien vagrant, as the killer of the woman.

They answered reports about a fire at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Post reported, at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station.

“She was found with liquor bottles surrounding her, though it was not immediately clear if they played any part in the fire,” the newspaper reported, citing police sources. “Investigators believe that the woman was sleeping when a man sitting across from her got up, walked by her and threw a match on her, engulfing her in fire,” the sources told the Post.

A later story said that Zapeta-Calil set the woman ablaze with a lighter. After that, he watched his victim burn until he walked away.

The Post also revealed that he had jumped the border in Arizona in 2018, but was quickly deported. He then entered the country illegally again and landed in New York.

“By April 2023 he was staying at a Days Inn hotel on 36th Street which had been converted into a migrant shelter — the first of four tax-funded facilities in the city,” the Post reported: