Update:
Authorities have arrested Sebastian Zapeta for allegedly lighting a sleeping woman on fire aboard a Coney Island F train. The New York Post describes Zapeta as a “Guatemalan migrant.”: “The suspect entered the country and was detained by border patrol agents in Arizona in June 2018 — and so far authorities have not found a past criminal record for him in New York City, law enforcement sources said,” they write.
Original:
A woman died in Brooklyn this weekend after a man set her aflame on an F train at Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island. The woman was reportedly alseep on the train when a man set her on fire with a lit match, police told The New York Post. Officers were able to put out the flames but it was too late to save her life. Her assailant fled the scene.
New York Police Department officers arrived at the crime scene near the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. subway station just before 7:30 a.m. They discovered a woman on fire in a stopped F train.
The woman was surrounded with liquor bottles, which may account for the speed and intensity of the fire, although police have not officially linked the