A woman set on fire inside a New York City subway has raised questions about how a world traveler and former Merck employee ended up homeless and burned on a train.

The woman who was fatally set on fire on a New York City subway last week has been identified. On Dec. 22, Debrina Kawam, 61, of Toms River, New Jersey, was asleep on an F train approaching the Coney ...

A woman who died after being set on fire on a New York City subway train this month was identified, according to police.

A vigil was held Thursday for the woman set on fire on a Brooklyn subway last weekend, a public memorial for the still nameless victim in a case that rocked the nation due to its cruelty. Community ...

NEW YORK — The man accused of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway and fanning the flames as she burned to ...

Sebastian Zapeta is accused by prosecutors of lighting the woman on fire on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station Sunday morning, then fanning the flames with a shirt NBC ...

Police in New York City have named a woman who was set on fire and burned to death last week on a subway train in Brooklyn.

Authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the victim, who died after she was lit on fire while asleep on a subway train ...

NEW YORK -- The woman who was set on fire and burned to death on a New York ... car at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn. Prosecutors say he used a lighter to start the fire ...

The man accused of setting a woman on fire on a subway train in Brooklyn is expected back in court on Tuesday. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, is scheduled to be arraigned after he waived the right to his first ...

A woman on the train at Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn was set on fire on Sunday, Dec. 22, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported in a news conference. A suspect has subsequently be ...

NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch described the case as "one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being." ...