Guatemalan Sebastian Zapeta is accused of setting a sleeping woman's clothes on fire on Dec. 22, using his shirt to fan the flames and then sitting on a platform bench nearby as the woman was ...

“Oh damn, that’s me!” Guatemalan native Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, allegedly told NYPD detectives when he was shown footage of the Dec. 22 attack at a Brooklyn F train station. Zapeta-Calil ...

Gonzalez said at a news conference that Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, waived his right to appear in court but is expected to be arraigned on the new charges, including one count of first-degree ...

Sebastian Zapeta, the migrant accused of fatally setting homeless woman Debrina Kawam on fire on a Coney Island subway train, pleaded not guilty Tuesday — even as court papers revealed he said ...

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, pleaded not guilty to murder and arson charges ...

Sebastian Zapeta is accused by prosecutors of lighting the woman on fire on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station Sunday morning, then fanning the flames with a shirt, causing her ...

Authorities are still working to confirm the victim's identity. The status of the suspect, Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, as an undocumented immigrant swiftly became the focus of coverage of the horrific ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil was arraigned Tuesday for first and second-degree murder charges as well as arson Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began working at PEOPLE in ...

Zapeta, 33, was charged Monday with first and second degree murder and arson after the New York City Police Department arrested the suspect on Sunday hours after the incident at the Coney Island ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, who was arraigned on first-degree murder charges Tuesday, started his Sunday calmly enough at the Samaritan Village Forbell men’s shelter in East New York ...

open image in gallery Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arrested following the harrowing incident on Sunday morning on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station (AP) Zapeta, a Guatemalan ...