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.

Sebastian Zapeta, the Guatemalan man accused of lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire and watching her burn to death on a Brooklyn subway car, was arraigned Tuesday.

A man accused of setting a sleeping woman on fire and killing her on a New York subway pleaded not guilty to felony murder ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Tuesday announced they identified the woman who died after being set on fire while inside a New York City subway train as Debrina Kawam. Kawam, 57, had an ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, confronted with video of the immolation of Debrina Kawam, told detectives he was blackout drunk at the time. He pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday. By Liam Stack The man ...

Debrina Kawam, known to her classmates as “Debbie” or “Deb,” graduated from Passaic Valley Regional HS in Little Falls, New Jersey, in 1985, The New York Times reported. Kawam ...

HindustanTimes.com spoke to Kent Bausman, Ph.D., a professor of sociology in the Online Sociology Program at Maryville ...

Police officials say that on Dec. 22, a man set fire to a sleeping woman, now identified as Debrina Kawam, in a stopped ...

But in his first interview with detectives at the NYPD's 60th Precinct in Coney Island, Zapeta would repeatedly inform investigators he had no memory of the incident, despite positively identifying ...

A memorial service will be held Sunday evening in Brooklyn for Debrina Kawam, who was set on fire inside a New York City ...

Community members gathered at the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay on Sunday in memorial of Debrina Kawam, who died ...

Torres said in response: 'On the same day the murder victim of the subway fire, Debrina Kawam (61) was finally identified, Governor Hochul feels the need to take a victory lap. The incident ...