Social media is flooded with claims that the victim of the NYC subway horror was a 29-year-old woman Amelia Carter. A photo of the said Amelia Carter is also going viral. But police have not yet identified the victim who died after being set on fire by accused Sebastian Zapeta Calil who was arrested and has been charged with murder.
What is the story of Amelia Carter then?
Social media users said the media is trying to hide the victim’s face and hence the name has not been revealed. One post said she was a Penn grad student and also shared a bio where it was written that she was working full-time toward a PhD in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
What is the truth in it?
Mystery over the identity of the victim deepens as it has not been revealed even two days after she turned to ashes inside a subway train. X has added community notes that Amelia Carter is a fabricated identity. The victim has not yet been identified. The false claims of some Amelia Carter being the victim of the subway horror started from a TikTok post.
Who is the woman in the viral photo?
Going by the community notes, the photo was generated with artificial intelligence to create a cryptocurrency scam. There is no truth behind the name and the photo.
On December 22, the unidentified woman’s clothes were set on fire by Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the illegal migrant from Guatemala who has been described by the authorities as a ‘madman’ who did not even know the victim. The woman was sleeping when her clothes were set on fire. She kept on burning and when the NYPD reached to douse the fire, it was too late to rescue her.
A video has surfaced showing an NYPD officer walking by the station while the victim was burning inside the train drawing shock and criticism from social media users who also questioned why no one else helped the woman.
The accused was arrested from a different station almost eight hours after the incident based on the tip-off of the local people. It has been found out that Sebastian Zapeta entered the US illegally in 2018 and was deported, but he again entered the country.