NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they’ve identified the woman who died earlier this month after being set on fire while asleep in a New York subway train. The victim is 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of New Jersey. She had worked at the pharmaceutical giant Merck from 2000 until 2002, but New York’s social services department said she recently had briefly been in a city homeless shelter. Thirty-three-year-old Sebastian Zapeta has been indicted on murder and arson charges in her Dec. 22 death. He hasn’t entered a plea. Police identified
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