NYPD Identifies Woman Burned to Death on Subway as 57-Year-Old From New Jersey

Guatemala national Sebastian Zapeta is accused by prosecutors of lighting the woman on fire on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station on Dec.. 22.

New York Police officers clear a train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Terminal in the Brooklyn borough of New York on May 5, 2020. Frank Franklin II/AP Photo

The New York Police Department (NYPD) on New Year’s Eve identified the woman who was killed after being set on fire on a stopped New York City subway train earlier this month.

Police identified her as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam, whose last known address was in Toms River, New Jersey, police confirmed in an email to The Epoch Times.