In New York, USA, a woman was set on fire inside the subway and burned alive as a man watched her die. Videos of the incident have gone viral. Later, the man was arrested by the police.
As per reports, the culprit has been identified as a 33-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta who was in the country despite being deported once earlier.
BREAKING: The man who burned a woman to death on the New York City subway has been confirmed to be an illegal alien from Guatemala that re-entered the country again after he was deported. pic.twitter.com/vXW6xKl937
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NYPD officials stated that Zapeta had approached the victim when she was sitting and had set her on fire with a cigarette lighter. The incident occurred when the subway train stopped at the Stillwell Avenue station in Coney Island, NYC at around 7.30 in the morning.
Two NYPD cops are under public wrath on the Internet over their failure to timely rescue Amelia Carter on the New York City subway after she was set on fire by an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. #BREAKING pic.twitter.com/b3xN4q17GL
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2 law enforcement officials and an MTA officer used fire extinguishers at the scene to douse the fire. But the woman was already dead. Zapeta had remained around the scene of the crime and was soon later arrested after some local teens alerted 911.
