Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with the death of a woman who died after being set on fire in a New York City subway train a day earlier.

STORY: Police have charged a man they say set a woman on fire on a New York City train and watched her burn to death Sunday morning. Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan citizen, was arrested on a subway train that same afternoon.

The suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, was taken into custody hours after the woman died on Sunday morning.