A woman was killed after a man threw a lighter on her while she was on a subway platform in Brooklyn. The suspect remained at the scene watching her burn. Police body-camera and surveillance footage were crucial in identifying and apprehending the suspect.
Investigators at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in Brooklyn after a woman onboard the subway died. The suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, was taken into custody hours after the woman died on Sunday morning. Zapeta was illegally in the country after he had been previously removed in 2018, said Jeff Carter, a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The attack took place at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station at about 7.
30am on Sunday, according to the New York police department. Police said the man threw a lighter on the woman, who appeared motionless or sleeping on surveillance footage, and she became engulfed in flames in seconds. Police say the man then remained at the scene, watching her burn from a bench on the subway platform as police and a transit worker tried to extinguish the flames. The woman’s clothing “became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds”, said Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner. “Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car, and the body-worn cameras on the responding officers produced a very clear detailed look at the killer,” Tisch said.Police body-camera and surveillance images were key to apprehending the suspect, investigators said. And authorities credited three high-school-age New Yorkers who recognised the suspect and called the police. “Our officers … stopped that train in Herald Square and were able to keep the doors closed, walk the train and place this very dangerous individual in custody,” the police chief of transit, Joseph Gulotta, sai
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