txdoda, thanks for the heads up on this horrible story. It may have been moved to chat, but that doesn't mean it can't still be given wide exposure...
HJ
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.
txdoda, thanks for the heads up on this horrible story. It may have been moved to chat, but that doesn't mean it can't still be given wide exposure...
HJ
He sure did, bless his soul.
This poor girl was a mother of three at 18?
There are some really sick people in this world.
The woman and kids, though they died a horrific death, are resting peacefully...but I have a feeling the sorry a$$hole's who caused their deaths is still burning.
This is the kind of illegal aliens our politicians want to not only amnesty, but special perks.
This poor girl was a mother of three at 18?>>>>>>>
Yes, a baby, a year, since age 15.
"He was a good person," >>>>>>>>
Yeah right.......the "good person" had sex with a minor, fathered 3 kids without marriage, then murdered all.
"but he was a hard worker">>>>>>
Worked hard to keep himself in drugs, guns & gas......apparently.
Doing the torch jobs Americans won't do...
I'll add it to the ever growing list....
They sent it to chat? LOL! We just talked to friends up in Seattle and it's big news there. Sheesh.....
Here's a link to a Seattle paper with more info about this crime.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/182204_gasdeaths15.html
Seems to me the murder of innocent children should be big news everywhere........I guess here it now depends on the murderer's *status*.
Never did hear back as to why this thread got sent to 'chat' so quickly.
What is disturbing, is the AM and this site allowed the Texas woman that killed her five kid by drowning them in the bath tub and toilets, run on front page news for days.....Of course, she was here legally....
Thanks for that. Maybe they sent it chat by mistake....
If the Border Patrol had been allowed to do interior sweeps nationwide, this girl and her 3 kids might still be alive.
Very important point. I wonder if he became moslem? Islamo-facists burn their wives in France, I'd read. And the point that he's an illegal, THEY WANT TO HIDE THIS FROM US! Will we ever know if he had a criminal record in Mexico? This madness has to stop! Just imagine when radical nationalists unite enough of these wacko criminals to their ranks, and when they have entire counties in their back pockets politically.
sick, sick, sick
There does seem to be a difference. She was a US citizen --- her crimes could be discussed.
Maybe he didn't want to be deported if not living with his anchor-kids --- this can be something like post-partum depression --- kill your children but have an excuse that you didn't want them being taken care of by another man --- even if you yourself paid no support at all toward them.
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