The crime level in New York City is getting worse. Yesterday, police charged a Guatemalan migrant with burning a fellow subway passenger alive on the train. The victim — a woman — was sleeping at 7:30 am when the unnamed suspect used a cigarette light to set her ablaze, and then sat back to watch her burn alive. Officials quickly extinguished the fire, but the woman died on site. Police unwittingly allowed the assailant to escape initially, but he was captured a few hours later.
The suspect, Sebastin Zapeta, 33, was said to have illegally entered the US in 2018 from Guatemala. Although deported initially, he re-entered at an unknown place and time. His current immigration status is unknown, but he was currently living at a migrants’ shelter on Randall’s Island.
Speaking to the NY Post, one New Yorker said that muggings, killings, and shootings are “really common nowadays. It’s going downhill a bit. Everybody keeps saying it’s going back to the seventies.”
For more, see the NY Post.