The horrific murder of a woman on the New York City subway, by involuntary immolation at the hands of an illegal migrant, has shocked the nation while going almost unreported on the “legacy” networks. Today NBC Nightly News broke the ice, leaving ABC Whirled News Tonight as the lone network holdout.
Watch the report in its entirety below:
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
12/23/24
6:40 PM
LESTER HOLT: Also in New York, a suspect was arrested after a disturbing attack on a subway over the weekend. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old undocumented migrant from Guatemala, is accused of lighting a sleeping woman on fire on the train. An ICE spokesperson says the suspect was previously deported in 2018, but managed to get past immigration officials again.
CBS Weekend News, to their credit, was the first network newscast to report on the murder, but had omitted…
