A former deputy has been identified as the suspect in a 1979 cold case that left a 25-year-old store clerk dead, the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday.

Forty-five years after a store clerk was shot and killed, the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office identified a former deputy as the prime suspect.

The woman was named as Debrina Kawam, 57, of Toms River, New Jersey, the New York Police Department said. Kawam was sleeping on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn on the morning of Dec.