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Young woman doused in gas, set on fire while walking to store: Cops ‘mystified by what’s happened’
NYPost ^ | 12/26/24 | Steve Janoski

Posted on 12/27/2024 4:28:34 AM PST by CFW

A young North Carolina woman was doused in gasoline and set on fire by a sick suspect who then fled — leaving her heartbroken mother wondering, “How could they do this to my baby?”

Ashanti Downey, 20, was rushed to the emergency room the night of Dec. 16 with second-and third-degree burns down the right side of her body, according to WRAL News in Raleigh-Durham.

Staffers at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford called the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office at about 7 p.m. to report the horrific act, which happened as Downey walked along Highway 27 toward a Dollar General in the same town.

That’s when an unidentified man came up behind her, dumped gas all over her and lit a cigarette that sparked the blaze, Downey told investigators.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: popdonnelly

When the perp is located, do exactly the same thing to him! 😠


21 posted on 12/27/2024 5:18:58 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Jonty30

I have no idea why this happened......I’ll say this though, it wouldn’t be the 1st time a black man has set a black female on fire as punishment......many times because the female wants to leave the relationship and the male does the unthinkable as payback.

I’ve seen it happen right here in my town at least twice.


22 posted on 12/27/2024 5:22:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Gen.Blather

Even carrying it would be hard to respond in time if you were assaulted by 3 individuals with a bucket of gas & a lighter sneaking up behind you.

That being said, this kind of thing is like being struck by lightning. Not very likely to happen. Unless lots of nutters decide this is fun, like punching unsuspecting people on the street.


23 posted on 12/27/2024 5:34:03 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: CFW

Time for eye-for-an-eye type of punishment. Most of these illegals would be thrilled with violence all around them, a bed and 3 square meals a day. Prison would be a luxurious punishment. Getting gasoline thrown on them, then a lighted match just might keep some from doing it. With the illegals coming to us, prison time is not a punishment.


24 posted on 12/27/2024 5:42:15 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: CFW

Does Dollar General have video of the incident ?

In today’s environment, these three assailants were recorded somewhere, the store , parking lot, etc.

Tracking phones could be another possibility.

Curious to see if they will be caught.


25 posted on 12/27/2024 5:50:02 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: V_TWIN; Jonty30

And it goes the other way too, as this cover of “The Thin Line Between Love And Hate” illustrates:

It’s a thin line between love and hate
It’s a thin line between love and hate

It’s five o’clock in the morning
And you’re just gettin’ in
A knock upon the door
A voice sweet and low says (who is it?)
She opens up the door
And she lets you in
And never once does she say “where have you been?”

She says “Hold it,
Are you hungry, did you eat yet,
Let me hang up your coat now”
And all the time she’s smiling
Never raises her voice
It’s five o’clock in the morning
And you don’t give it a second thought

It’s a thin line between love and hate
It’s a thin line between love and hate

The sweetest woman in the world
Could be the meanest woman in the world
If you make her be that way
She might be holding something in
That’s really gonna hurt you
One of these fine days

There you are in the hospital
Bandaged from foot to head
In a state of shock
That much from bein’ dead
You didn’t think your woman
Could do something like that to you
You didn’t think she’d got the nerve
Accidents speak louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words

Come on
Come on, baby, baby
If you won’t give a damn about me
Come on baby, baby
You don’t really care about me

Hear what I say
Hear what I say


26 posted on 12/27/2024 5:58:47 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: CFW

Let me guess... An illegal alien who’s p*ssed off about being recently downgraded from a luxury hotel, to a Day’s Inn???


27 posted on 12/27/2024 6:02:00 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: CFW

Ashanti Downey, 20, was set on fire in North Carolina last week.
28 posted on 12/27/2024 6:18:47 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: metmom

If they don’t immediately placate the family which is black, they will be accused of racism, and everyone knows that being accused of racism is the worst thing that can ever happen to the police /s

Society is scared out of their minds of being called racist. That child will perhaps not survive if the child is placed back with the family, but at least the police won’t be accused of racism , again /s


29 posted on 12/27/2024 6:25:51 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Jonty30

a future Democrat will simply pardon them.


30 posted on 12/27/2024 6:26:11 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Jonty30

Good points


31 posted on 12/27/2024 6:26:34 AM PST by Bob434
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To: CFW

BTTT


32 posted on 12/27/2024 6:26:54 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Gen.Blather

“Having said that I carry concealed. I discovered from a neighbor whose children were playing with kids next door to me that the guy next door had an entire wall in his house of photographs of me taken with a telephoto lens. I had no idea. But suddenly my neighbor’s bizarre behavior made sense. There are crazy people out there, but they’re much the exception. Still, the world would be much safer if everyone carried a gun on their hip. The unsafe people would quickly be weeded out.”


That’s creepy. The neighbor has an unhealthy fixation on you and what you do each day. Good decision to conceal carry.

All our neighbors live on 5+ acres and the tracts of land are all wooded. Our piece of property is a bit bigger so we are separated from others by plenty of land. We pretty much stay out of each other’s business which makes for good relationships. About the worst aggravation I have is when the neighbors don’t keep their dogs up and they come to my house to eat the cat food from the cats’ dish on the porch. Hubby just walks the dog home and reminds them to try to do better.

We have a long driveway and occasionally a ner-do-well, would drive down our way looking for what they could find. So, we finally installed a gate. For some reason meth-heads from out of the area think a wooded place with a long drive-way means idiots own the property. LOL! We still conceal carry around our place. You never know when a dangerous creature will show up, whether it be 2-legged or four.


33 posted on 12/27/2024 6:30:15 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

This sort of thing must be punished in such a way (change the laws to allow it) ghay causes even a crazy person to say, “Oh, nuh uh, I’m not doing that.”


34 posted on 12/27/2024 6:30:22 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: CFW

This sort of thing must be punished in such a way (change the laws to allow it) that causes even a crazy person to say, “Oh, nuh uh, I’m not doing that.”


35 posted on 12/27/2024 6:31:10 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Strict9

36 posted on 12/27/2024 6:49:56 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: V_TWIN
“an unidentified man”

That tells me enough

Coulter's Law. states that the longer it takes the news media to identify a [criminal suspect] in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male.

37 posted on 12/27/2024 7:10:48 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: CFW

It’s getting to the point now you only carry a gun when you are alone or with someone, period.


38 posted on 12/27/2024 7:41:05 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: CFW

The gene pool needs some serious cleaning.


39 posted on 12/27/2024 7:46:22 AM PST by healy61
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To: CFW

If there were three perps, I bet one took pictures.

And if there were three, someone in “their community” knows their identity.

“their community” being the operative phrase.

I can understand the silence to some degree if a bunch of thugs shoot one another in a small time drug rip.

But how can any decent God-fearing human being who knows anything about such EVIL crime as this not go to the authorities immediately.

I’m a big fan of First 48 and they get a lot of leads through anonymous tip lines.


40 posted on 12/27/2024 7:50:59 AM PST by Biblebelter
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