Illegal migrant's outrageous defense for setting woman on fire on NYC subway
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A 33-year-old illegal migrant who set a stranger on fire on a New York City subway told officers he was drunk at the time and couldn't remember it. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil has been charged with murder and arson in the first degree after the woman, who has not yet been named, burned to death on the F train in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
![[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/2024/12/24/13/93428489-14224303-Train_surveillance_cameras_caught_the_man_setting_fire_to_the_ho-m-2_1735046928141.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. Law enforcement sources told The New York Post that he was arrested a short time after with a lighter in his pocket and that he told investigators he was drunk and had no recollection of it happening.
![[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)
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.
![[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)
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. Anonymous sources also told the 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.
![[Pictured: NYPD 60th Precinct detectives walk accused fire bug Zapeta-Calil out of the building]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/20/93439299-14222527-image-m-22_1734987321218.jpg)
