""Every person is entitled to have a legacy, no matter who they are," the former Republican mayoral candidate told reporters at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. "And she has a very interesting story, although she never had a chance to tell it to anybody because of her untimely death.""
""Doesn't seem like anybody else cares," he said. "I think the next thing we have to try to do is convince the MTA that there should be a statue right here. It sort of honors all the homeless and emotionally disturbed person who make their homes the subway cars, the subway platforms, the subway stations.""
Curtis Sliwa and members of the Guardian Angels gathered at the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue F train station to mark the first anniversary of Debrina Kawam’s death. Kawam was allegedly torched on Dec. 22, 2024, by Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, with surveillance and mobile footage showing the attacker watching her burn and later sitting casually on a bench as first responders arrived. Sources say Zapeta-Calil fanned the flames with his jacket and later told police he was too intoxicated to remember. Sliwa called for a statue on the platform to honor Kawam and other homeless and emotionally disturbed people. Kawam grew up in Tom’s River, New Jersey, attended college, worked in Atlantic City, and became homeless after mental illness and misfortune; she reportedly avoided violent city shelters.
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