Sebastian Zapeta, accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train appears in Kings County Supreme Court for an arraignment, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in New York.

Video surveillance captured Zapeta-Calil, who rode in the same subway car as the victim from Queens, using what appeared to be a lighter to set fire to fabric that covered the sleeping woman.

Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train, appears in court on December 24, 2024.

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil repeatedly told detectives he had no memory of an attack that killed a woman who was set ablaze on the New York City subway train he was riding the morning of December 22 ...

Sebastian Zapeta will stay behind bars after those disturbing moments on a subway train in Coney Island just days before Christmas were captured on video. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.