BREAKING: Woman Burned to Death by Illegal Alien on NYC Subway Identified
The woman killed after being set ablaze by an illegal alien on a New York City subway has finally been identified.
The burn victim was identified as 61-year-old Debrina Kawam.
Kawam was linked to an address in Toms River, New Jersey, but she was described as homeless.
It took investigators more than a week to identify the victim using fingerprints because her burns were so severe.
The New York Post reported:
Cops have identified the woman who was lit on fire as she slept and then burned to death on a Brooklyn subway train while terrified straphangers watched in horror, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Debrina Kawam, 61, was identified using fingerprints.
Kawam, who had a listed address of Toms River, New Jersey, was sleeping on an F train at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 22 when she was set on fire. Illegal Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is facing first-degree murder charges in the sick attack.
Horrifying video footage shows the accused killer fanning the flames as the woman burned — and calmly watching the scorched victim from a bench on the platform.
A source told The Post she was alive when she was set on fire, with a walker and several bags nearby.
The city medical examiner struggled to identify the body because it was so severely burned in the attack, sources previously said.
The Guatemalan who burned Kawam to death on a New York City subway is an illegal alien who was previously deported by the Trump Administration in June 2018.
The Guatemalan illegal, Sebastian Zapeta, crossed into the US in Arizona on June 1, 2018 and was deported a few days later on June 7, 2018.
Zapeta then reentered the US illegally as a ‘gotaway’ at an unknown time and location and roamed around freely thanks to Joe Biden.
NEW: Per DHS sources, the suspect accused of burning a woman to death on a NYC subway is a Guatemalan illegal alien who was previously deported by the Trump administration and re-entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location. I’m told he was arrested by… pic.twitter.com/bWkmwdwhOz
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The Gateway Pundit reported last Sunday that Kawam was fatally lit on fire aboard a stationary F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station.
The attack occurred around 7:30 a.m. when the suspect, without any prior interaction, approached Kawam—who appeared to be sleeping—and ignited her clothing using a lighter.
Police believe that the man was sitting across from her on the train while she was napping and that he got up and tossed a lit match at her.
“Liquor bottles were laying around the victim, though it wasn’t clear if they played any part in the blaze,” the Post report adds.
Adding to the outrage, a transit police officer is seen walking past the burning woman, appearing to speak on a radio but continuing down the platform without rendering immediate assistance or attempting to apprehend the perpetrator.
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