New York officials have identified the 57-year-old woman who was burned alive inside a subway car in December to be Debrina ...

NEW YORK-- A vigil was held Sunday in Brooklyn for Debrina Kawam, the woman fatally set on fire on a subway back in December.

NEW YORK — The woman who died after being set on fire in a New York subway train this month was a 57-year-old from New Jersey, police announced Tuesday. The woman, Debrina Kawam, had worked at ...

Prosecutors say he set fire to Debrina Kawam, 57, aboard a stopped train in the early morning hours of Dec. 22, fanned the flames with a shirt and watched the woman burn from a subway bench.

Footage of the man being treated in an ambulance showed burns to his face, neck, chest and arms. In December, Debrina Kawam, 57, of New Jersey, died after being set on fire in a New York subway train.