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

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 ...

Zapeta-Calil's immigration status quickly became a focus for those posting about the incident online, once the New York City Police Department shared a body-worn camera image of the man they ...

The roommate of Sebastian Zapeta, the Guatemalan migrant who police say horrifically killed a woman by setting her on fire as she slept on an F train in Brooklyn, and then watched as she burned to ...

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged Monday with first- and second-degree murder and arson in the wake of the shocking crime on an F train in Coney Island, Brooklyn over the weekend, police said.

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 ...

The illegal Guatemalan migrant accused of torching a sleeping woman on a Brooklyn subway train was hit with murder and arson charges Monday — as the feds identified him as Sebastian Zapeta-Calil ...

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arrested following the harrowing incident on Sunday morning on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station. Prosecutors with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office ...