NYC subway murder suspect said to be high on K2 drug aka Spice. Here's all about it
Guatemalan migrant faces murder charges after a woman died in a Brooklyn subway fire early Sunday. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, is accused of setting the woman on fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.
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Surveillance video shows Zapeta-Calil setting the sleeping woman's clothes on fire with a lighter and then using a shirt to fan the flames, prosecutors said. He then sat on a bench and watched the woman burn, according to authorities. The woman died at the scene from thermal injuries and smoke inhalation.
Zapeta-Calil lived at the Samaritan Village Forbell men’s shelter in East New York. A roommate, Raymond Robinson, said Zapeta-Calil often used K2 and alcohol. “He smoked K2, drank, and bugged out,” Robinson said. “He would bug out and talk to himself when he was high, but he never harmed nobody or himself. When he wasn’t high, he’d talk like we’re talking regular”.
Despite his sometimes erratic behavior, Robinson said Zapeta-Calil was often quiet and helpful. “He was friendly. Say you just came in and needed some socks, he’d help you out,” Robinson said, adding, “That’s why this st f-ed my head up because I slept next to him, and he was never like that.” Robinson also said, “I wouldn’t leave my daughter with anybody but he was the type of dude I could trust, as long as he wasn’t high”.
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