Illegal migrant allegedly set train passenger on fire and watched her burn to death --NYPD officials said man watched as the woman burned to death on the subway train | 22 Dec 2024 | A migrant from Guatemala was arrested in connection to the heinous death of a woman who was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. Sources identified the person of interest to Fox News Digital as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta. While police did not identify the person of interest, a high-level NYPD source told Fox News Digital the individual entered the U.S. illegally from Guatemala in 2018, when President-elect Trump was president during his first term. The person of interest has no prior arrests in New York City and one prior arrest in Arizona, the source said, though details about the arrest were not available.