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.

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Sebastian Zapeta, the man accused of setting a woman on fire on the NYC subway, pleads not guilty in the death of Debrina Kawam.

Zapeta was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Criminal Court after ... Zapeta allegedly set the unidentified woman's clothes on fire, and then fanned the flames by waving a shirt around her, which ...

then allegedly set her and the blanket she was underneath on fire, CNN reported, citing a complaint from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. The prosecutor added that Zapeta-Calil told police ...

The suspect is accused of setting a sleeping woman's clothes on fire, using his shirt to fan the flames and then sitting on a platform bench nearby.

The woman who was fatally set on fire in a New York City subway earlier ... on an idle F train at the Stillwell Avenue station, in Brooklyn, on Dec. 22, when just before 7:30 a.m. a man set ...

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