Debrina Kawam, a 61-year-old homeless woman, was set on fire by illegal Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil while she ...

It took police more than a week to publicly identify 57-year-old Debrina Kawam as the woman who was fatally set on fire in a ...

In posts that circulated widely on social media after Kawam's death on Dec. 22, users claimed without evidence that the victim was a 29-year-old named “Amelia Carter.” These posts ricocheted ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It took police more than a week to publicly identify Debrina Kawam, 57, as the woman who was fatally set on fire in a New York subway train last month. But on the internet, it ...

Instead, users filled the void with false claims about “Amelia Carter.” Posts called for officials and the media to “say her name." Some claimed she was on her way to visit her grandmother ...