We now know more about the insane killer
The illegal Guatemalan migrant accused of setting a straphanger on fire and gawking as she burned to death was once deported — but sneaked back into the US and the Big Apple shelter system, sources told The Post.
The accused firebug, who has not yet been charged, first entered the US illegally at the Arizona border in 2018, but was nabbed just days later and shipped back home.
He later crossed the border again, dodging federal agents and finding his way north to the five boroughs — although it is unclear how long he was in the city before the horrific F train attack Sunday, the sources said.
What is clear is that by April 2023 he was staying at a Days Inn hotel on 36th Street which had been converted into a migrant shelter — the first of four tax-funded facilities in the city.
When he was issued a transit ticket in 2023, he gave an address of a shelter on Randall’s Island, the sources said.
So, he was known. He was living in SCNY aboveground. The city was giving him shelter and taxpayer funded support. And then he set a woman on fire and watched.
The NY Times has an interesting take in an update
The nightmarish attack seemed almost like a collage of social problems the city is facing: homelessness, random transit crime, illegal immigration, substance abuse.
Aren’t these all things the Times either endorses, ignores, and/or says are no problem?
Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New York City’s sad disconnect to humanity
No one helped.
The bystanders were too busy filming. The cops? Well, instead of wrapping their jackets around a burning woman in an F train stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station on Sunday morning, they walked by.
Surely, someone would have thrown their coat over her, ran to look for water, screamed at her to stop, drop and roll. Found a fire extinguisher. Yelled for help. Something. Most of us like to think we would have acted to save her life.
This is NYC to the extreme, where no one offers help. They’ll take videos and upload them. And, these days, no one wants to get involved even more after Alvin Bragg prosecuted Daniel Penny.
No one helped because of the Marine charged with murder and then forced to defend his very life for stepping in and helping.
No one helped thanks to George Soros who wants to destroy America with his billions by getting far left, unqualified progressive communists to be District Attorneys and Attorney Generals in our great nation who will certainly go after anyone who steps in and helps.
China has this very problem right now. Every citizen will watch someone fall to the ground in the middle of a busy street unconscious and just walk around them, hurrying to get out of the area lest they end up in jail for some nonsensical government entanglement.
Ambivalence has become a thing. 1984 describes this perfectly. If you’ve never read 1984, you should. The author was a prophet.
No one helped because everyone wanted clicks on their Instagram or Facebook accounts. No one helped because No one gives a shit anymore. They are too busy trying to survive to worry about their neighbor.
In short…..in Blue democrat run cities and states where helping lands you in prison….do not expect help from your fellow citizens. You are on your fuking own!!!
This is where we need to hold accountable those public officials who knew he was here illegally, for providing him shelter and cover. The way you break up these stupid ‘sanctuary cities” is by federally charging and putting in jail the officials who help them get away with it.
That sounds like a very good idea.
Sometimes people do help. A couple years ago, I slipped and fell on the sidewalk outside the dollar store. A black gentleman driving a huge pickup thru the parking lot stopped, got out of his truck and helped me up.