According to The New York Times has a woman been set on fire when she was in an elevator somewhere in Brooklyn, New York. The man, wearing some kind of clothing, should have gone into the elevator where the woman was and started to spray her down with lighter fluid (or similar) to then set fire to her:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/ny...ator.html?_r=1The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists.
Having cornered the woman in the elevator, the man struggles to light a barbecue lighter. He then ignites a Molotov cocktail — a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck. He retreats and comes back again, spraying more liquid on his victim. And suddenly the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space: the woman, on fire.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-New-York.htmlNew York City police arrested Jerome Isaac, 47, who they believed doused his former employer with gasoline before setting her on fire in the elevator of her Brooklyn, New York, apartment.
Isaac is reportedly a disgruntled handyman who was angry over a $2,000 unpaid bill. He was charged this afternoon with first-degree murder and arson, hours after he turned himself in to police reeking of gasoline with the entire left-side of his face clearly singed by flames.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...ticle-1.993226Delores Gillespie, was on her way home from buying groceries when she stepped out of the elevator at 203 Underhill Ave. in Prospect Heights and into a carefully laid trap.
Minutes earlier, Gillespie’s attacker had glued shut the locks on the elderly woman’s fifth-floor apartment and doused the elevator door with accelerant, sources said.
When the elevator reached her floor about 4:15 p.m., she was met by the psycho clad in black and clutching a barbecue lighter, a wine bottle and a canister of combustible fluid resembling an exterminator’s kit.
He barged into the elevator and sprayed her with a mist of accelerant from point-blank range. Gillespie turned from her attacker, crouched down and threw her hands up to her face, grocery bags dangling from her arms.
The assailant cornered her and started spraying her methodically over her face and torso, police said.
Then, the madman, wearing white gloves and a dust mask on his head, lit a Molotov cocktail, waited for a few seconds and set his ex on fire with the wick.
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EDIT:
The man in question, Jerome Isacc, 47, have turned in himself to the police for the murder on the 73 year old woman. http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-questioned-death-woman-set-ablaze-elevator/story?id=15183434 - has a video
Thank you Marvel_Phoenix for the link.
New updates
http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-nyc-wo...180131954.html
ty, marvel_phoenix
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Thoughts about what happened?
Im currently sitting and tries to find more information about what happened. It's shocking really. The first news updates talked about him being a ex-boyfriend of some sort, but now the later ones are just saying that he was angry at her for an unpayed bill at 2000 dollar. It's insane what he did! Ex-boyfriend / unpayed bill - or not: a normal person don't go and do something like that!!! He properly must have some sort of disorder... (??). Anyway, this is purely insane. I hope he'll never be let out again.
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