Posted on 07/14/2004 2:17:14 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
5 Die After Being Set on Fire in Seattle
By JIM COUR, Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE - A man doused his girlfriend and three small children with gasoline inside a car and set them on fire early Wednesday as he drove, authorities said. All five died after the car crashed in flames.
Residents reported hearing the crash and seeing two adults engulfed in flames, stumbling across a road near Bonny Lake, a small town east of Tacoma.
Antigone Monique Allen, 18, who had recently filed an assault complaint against the 24-year-old man, survived for about nine hours at a Seattle hospital, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. She managed to tell investigators what happened before she died.
"She was very brave and talked to detectives this morning," Troyer said.
The man, whose identity had not been verified, was incoherent at the scene and died before reaching the hospital, Troyer said.
Allen told police the man pulled a gun after he and the others got into the car, then doused them with gasoline and set them ablaze with a lighter as he drove, Troyer said.
After the crash, the man fired four or five shots at Allen as she ran into a pasture; an autopsy will be needed to determine if the shots hit her, Troyer said.
Lisa Hansen, who lives nearby, said she heard the crash and drove down the road to see if she could help. She and a friend of her sons heard a voice in the pasture screaming: "Help! Help! Help me, please!"
They saw the woman standing, with her shirt burned off, but Hansen could not get to her because an electrified horse fence was between them. According to Hansen, the woman was screaming in pain, saying, "He did it! He did this on purpose!"
Firefighters found the bodies of the children — a 6-month-old boy, 1 1/2-year-old boy and 2 1/2-year-old girl — in the back of the burned car. Allen and the man apparently were parents of one or more of the children, but authorities had not determined the exact relationships, Troyer said.
Troyer said Allen had recently filed an assault complaint, and a deputy was assigned to the case, but the woman failed to follow through.
"They were in the process of getting back together or breaking up, off and on," the detective said. The woman's relatives indicated there had been "some unreported domestic violence," Troyer said.
"24-year-old man, survived for about nine hours at a Seattle hospital"
With luck the doctors spent those 9 hours rubbing him down with salt and showering him in alcohol.
OMG!!! Disgusting.
Its good he burned to death--he's going to need to get used to hot things where he's going. Prayers to the family of these poor confused and innocent people who were his victims. May Satan find a punishment for this beast.
Taken out of context. The whole sentence makes it clear that SHE survived 9 hours. Further down:
"The man, whose identity had not been verified, was incoherent at the scene and died before reaching the hospital,
You need to re-read the whole sentence. It was not the man who survived nine hours it was the women. She had recently filed an assault complaint against the man.
From Article:"Antigone Monique Allen, 18, who had recently filed an assault complaint against the 24-year-old man, survived for about nine hours at a Seattle hospital, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. She managed to tell investigators what happened before she died."
I see that now. Its a poorly written sentence. In fact I read it a couple of times to make sure and still misread it.
The woman survived for nine hours, not the perp. He was dead at the scene.
This is a tragedy for all involved, but I just have to say... 18 years old and 3 kids? Involved with a 24-y/o deranged lunatic? Damn.
Alltogether too common.
Unfortunately, yes.
Why can't deranged lunatics just take themselves out? Why do they have to take everybody around with them?
A Pierce County fire official sifts through the remains of a vehicle that left the road and overturned in a field near Bonney Lake. Authorities say a man set fire to his estranged girlfriend and three small children while driving and crashed. All five died.
Horrific! :-(
What an evil, twisted person this was.
Ive lost two cousins to their suicidal boyfriends.
One shot my cousin and her sister before shooting himself. one of those cousins lived. Another cousin was killed when her boyfriend decided to kill himself my cousin and 3 others in the car. one passenger lived and is in a wheel chair.
That's awful. This story must really hit home to you, then.
That it is.
Jim Cour is the sports writer for AP...must have rushed it to the wire.
The story I read from here:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/fiery_deaths
included this little gem-
"He was a good person," she said. "He was an illegal immigrant here, but he was a hard worker and tried to do what he had to do to make it"
Wonder when they edited it?
"He was an illegal immigrant here".....>>>>>>
Notice how many of the medias *always* omit the 'legal status' of the criminals/crimes they just love to report on ???
Guess they don't want us 'taxpayers' keeping a running total on the *illegal* crimes nation wide.
(Joe, here's another for your 'list')
Interesting.....your thread got bumped into the 'chat....murdering illegals don't rate much discussion, I guess.
No 'front page' status re: A 'coked' up illegal, who fathers a kid a year (with a 15 yr. old) & then decides to murder the mother & all three kids.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/fiery_deaths
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