Illegal migrant who set woman on fire on subway was deported under Trump but snuck back in
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A 33-year-old man who set a stranger on fire at a New York City subway station was in the US illegally from Guatemala, according to the New York Post. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil has been charged with murder and arson in the first degree after a woman burned to death on the F train in Brooklyn just before 7.30am on Sunday, police told DailyMail.com.
![[Zapeta-Calil, 33, was was pictured perp walking out of the NYPD 60th Precinct building in Coney Island on Monday afternoon. The victim has not yet been identified]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/21/93439279-14222527-Zapeta_Calil_33_was_was_pictured_perp_walking_out_of_the_NYPD_60-m-9_1734987766871.jpg)
He was pictured perp walking out of the NYPD 60th Precinct building in Coney Island on Monday afternoon. The victim has not yet been identified. Chilling footage showed the moment a man in a hoodie sat on the platform at Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island and watched as the woman became engulfed by flames.
![[Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is shown sitting on a subway bench watching as the woman he set fire to burns alive. In front of him is an NYPD officer who walked past him, unaware he was responsible for the sickening crime]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/20/93432375-14222527-Sebastian_Zapeta_Calil_is_shown_sitting_on_a_subway_bench_watchi-a-17_1734987287187.jpg)
Police said Zapeta-Calil lit the unnamed passenger on fire as she slept on board the train before sitting back to watch her burn as she leaned dying on the carriage door. Zapeta-Calil can even be seen fanning the flames in one clip while other New Yorkers filmed the horror on their phones and cops walked on by.
![[The sick killer even got up at one point to fan the flames that were burning the woman alive]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/21/93432185-14222527-The_sick_killer_even_got_up_at_one_point_to_fan_the_flames_that_-a-8_1734987714144.jpg)
Anonymous sources have told the New York Post that Zapeta-Calil was in the country illegally after previously being deported at the Arizona border in June 2018. It's unclear how he got back into the US. Zapeta-Calil appeared stony-faced as officers escorted him out of the Coney Island police custody building on Monday. He fixed his eyes on the ground while wearing police-issued white overalls.
![[Train surveillance cameras caught the man setting fire to the homeless woman and then watching as she suffered in agony]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/21/93428489-14222527-Train_surveillance_cameras_caught_the_man_setting_fire_to_the_ho-a-7_1734987714067.jpg)
