Handling homelessness: Three approaches to enforcing the anti-public sleeping bill
Since Jan. 1, the state, its residents and business owners can sue local governments if they see people sleeping outside.
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Not Amelia Carter, NYC subway horror victim was New Jersey's Debrina Kawam. Who was she?
Debrina Kawam, a 61-year-old homeless woman, was set on fire by illegal Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil while she slept on a New York subway train. The NYPD identified her 10 days ...
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Woman burned to death in New York subway identified as Debrina Kawam
The man accused of lighting her on fire, Sebastian Zapeta ... Adams said on Tuesday that Kawam had a “brief stint in our homeless shelter system” and that authorities had been in contact ...
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Woman burned to death in New York subway is identified as 57-year-old from New Jersey
She had briefly been in a New York homeless shelter after moving to the ... Island when her clothes were set ablaze by a stranger, Sebastian Zapeta. Zapeta, 33, allegedly fanned the flames with ...
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Woman burned to death in New York subway is identified as 57-year-old from New Jersey
The woman, Debrina Kawam, apparently moved to New York only recently and was briefly in a city homeless shelter ... were set ablaze by a stranger, Sebastian Zapeta. Zapeta, 33, allegedly fanned ...
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The woman who was burned to death inside a New York City subway has been identified
according to the New York City Department of Homeless Services. The man accused of lighting her on fire on Dec. 22, Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was taken into custody hours after police disseminated ...
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New York police identify woman burned to death inside subway train
She had briefly been in a New York homeless shelter after moving to the ... Island when her clothes were set ablaze by a stranger, Sebastian Zapeta. Zapeta, 33, allegedly fanned the flames with ...
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Woman who burned to death inside N.Y.C. subway train identified. She was 57
The man accused of lighting her on fire, 33-year-old Guatemalan migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil ... Kawan had “a brief stint” in city homeless shelters, but didn’t disclose when.
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Woman burned to death inside New York City subway is identified
The woman, Debrina Kawam, apparently moved to New York only recently and was briefly in a city homeless shelter ... were set ablaze by a stranger, Sebastian Zapeta. Zapeta, 33, allegedly fanned ...
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She was set on fire and no one knows her name. How homelessness, crime and a broken immigration system met in a subway car
Both suspect and victim rode the F train to the end of the line in Brooklyn last Sunday, a frequent practice by homeless people seeking to take shelter from the cold at night. Once the train arrived ...
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Man accused of setting woman on fire in NYC subway faces multiple counts of murder
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil ... Despite DNA testing, authorities have yet to identify the woman, who was homeless. A vigil was held in her honor on Thursday. Zapeta-Calil was reportedly deported ...