A person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with a woman who was set on fire and died Sunday morning on a subway train in Brooklyn, police said.

A woman died after she was set on fire aboard the New York City subway on an F train in Brooklyn, police say.

The woman who was set on fire on the NYC subway has been identified as Debrina Kawam, of Toms River, New Jersey, police say.

Police have charged the man they said lit a woman on fire aboard an F train in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, killing her. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged with murder in the first and second ...

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, of Guatemala was charged Monday afternoon with murder after authorities say he approached a woman on a train in Brooklyn and ignited her clothes.

Sebastian Zapeta is arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court in New York City on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. Zapeta is accused of setting a sleeping woman on fire on a subway train in Coney Island.

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 ...

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.

The man accused of setting a woman on fire onboard a Brooklyn subway train was charged Monday with first and second-degree murder. Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Sebastian ...

At an arraignment in Brooklyn criminal court earlier in the week, a prosecutor alleged Zapeta approached the woman on the train and set her clothing on fire.