‘Killer watches woman burn alive inside train after setting her on fire’
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Disturbing footage shows a man accused of setting a woman on fire and killing her allegedly watching her burn as cops walked by.
![[A woman was killed after her body was found engulfed in flames in an F line train car Sunday morning in Coney Island, according to police. Police determined that the incident was a homicide. Police say an unidentified woman was sleeping on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Subway station when an unknown man lit her on fire at 7:29 a.m. The suspect is described as a man, 5 feet 6 inches tall,150 pounds, and approximately 25 to 30 years old. He was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, blue jeans, a dark knit hat with a red band and brown boots.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234065835-261b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The suspect, identified as Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old migrant from Guatemala, appeared to sit on a bench at a subway platform in Brooklyn in front of an F train car while a blaze burned inside. Zapeta-Calil allegedly fanned the inferno at one point as the woman was engulfed in flames on Sunday morning, the Daily Mail reported.
![[New York, December 23, 2024 - NYPD 60th Precinct, detectives walk accused fire bug Sebastian Zapeta, 33 for the depraved killing of a woman who was set on fire as she was on board an F train, burning her to death on Sunday morning in Brooklyn.. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for DailyMail.com)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234142216-add6.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘This is a person right here,’ someone could be heard shouting in a video clip. A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer waved helplessly at the scene but did not detain Zepeta-Calil. ‘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,’ said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
![[New York, December 23, 2024 - NYPD 60th Precinct, detectives walk accused fire bug Sebastian Zapeta, 33 for the depraved killing of a woman who was set on fire as she was on board an F train, burning her to death on Sunday morning in Brooklyn.. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for DailyMail.com)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234142215-1c41.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The suspect approached a woman who was ‘motionless’ in the train car as it neared the Stillwell Avenue station around 7.30am, said police. Authorities initially said the woman was sleeping. CCTV footage from inside the car showed the suspect setting a blanket over the woman on fire and the victim standing up already covered in flames, according to CNN.
