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Garland Clerk Set on Fire in Robbery Dies
NBCDFW ^ | May 25, 2012

Posted on 05/25/2012 10:06:43 PM PDT by Rastus

Police to pursue capital murder charge against suspect Friday, May 25, 2012 | Updated 10:57 PM CDT

A 76-year-old convenience store clerk who was set on fire during a robbery at the Garland gas station where she worked has died.

Nancy Harris died at Parkland Hospital on Friday evening, Garland police said in a statement. Harris had burns on more than 40 percent of her body.

Police said Harris, a clerk at a Fina station in the 3300 block of Broadway Boulevard, was attacked at about 7 a.m. Sunday.

Two officers saw her emerge from the gas station with the upper half of her body on fire. One of the officers put out the fire with a fire extinguisher. She told the officers she had been robbed, doused with a liquid and set on fire.

Matthew Johnson, 36, was arrested a short time later and charged with criminal attempted capital murder. Garland police said they would work with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office to pursue a charge of capital murder.

Johnson is being held in the Dallas County Jail a $1 million bond.


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To: Rastus
I hope justice is swift and approiate to the dastardly act.
21 posted on 05/25/2012 10:50:02 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Gabrial

Sounds right. I’d want part of that 40% to be roasted be around the underwear region.


22 posted on 05/25/2012 10:57:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Rastus

What’s sad is that I could guess it was one of Holder’s People before I saw any photos or read the perp’s name.


23 posted on 05/25/2012 11:04:58 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: re_nortex

I don’t understand this level of inhumanity.


24 posted on 05/25/2012 11:09:00 PM PDT by berdie
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To: re_nortex

He’s got the same ‘chin tilt’ as Obama when he’s presiding over the little people.


25 posted on 05/25/2012 11:15:31 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Gabrial

But that would be only his penis, right?


26 posted on 05/25/2012 11:17:59 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: FlyingEagle

Nope, WAY to quick. Stake this thug bastard out over an anthill. Make this savage suffer horribly for a L.O.N.G. time.....


27 posted on 05/25/2012 11:24:46 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired high up in the mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: Rastus

At least his mother was quoted in the paper as refusing to visit him in jail. Usually, it seems like the family rallies around the perp and acts like the victim was to blame for getting their little darling in trouble.


28 posted on 05/25/2012 11:28:03 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: funfan; Terry Mross
Piece of garbage.

You are insulting to garbage.

And no, I'm not trying to be funny or clever. There's no sarc tag nor a smilie in this post. I have no words to describe my thoughts and feelings about this individual and the depraved evil he did. He's a beast. But then again, beasts act only out of instinct. In contrast, this organism willfully and maliciously tortured, terrorized and ultimately took the life of a helpless, innocent, elderly white woman.

29 posted on 05/25/2012 11:33:50 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Let the punishment fit the crime..


30 posted on 05/25/2012 11:35:04 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Rastus

Actually, my heart breaks for the mother. How could you, even in your deepest imagination think your child would do something this heinous?

He probably did things in the past, but not to this degree.


31 posted on 05/25/2012 11:41:07 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie

Yeah, the thing I remember from the earlier story was that he was stealing inspection stickers from his work and selling them to buy crack. I don’t know if he was violent before this.


32 posted on 05/25/2012 11:58:15 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Rastus

Thank you for the ping. I wonder if this woman would have been working if they economy were better. Come to think of it, the alleged might have been doing something else also.

Thanks democrats.


33 posted on 05/26/2012 12:20:30 AM PDT by No One Special
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To: No One Special

Johnson. How do these thugs/lowlifes end up with a hard-working Norwegian farmer type name?


34 posted on 05/26/2012 12:43:52 AM PDT by Minnesota fox
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To: Rastus

We could learn a few things from the Chinese in the area of criminal justice.


35 posted on 05/26/2012 12:55:29 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Rastus

More justice for Trayvon by another man who looks like Obama’s son.

The MSM will not report this story.


36 posted on 05/26/2012 1:13:13 AM PDT by Bon mots ("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
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To: jjotto

Guy poses his head just like Obama does.

Spray him with lighter fluid and light him up. I believe in executing the criminal the same way they executed their victim.


37 posted on 05/26/2012 3:32:45 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: doc1019

Nope, that’s California. Texas has it down to 10 years or less, the food isn’t very good and there aren’t much by way of comforts.


38 posted on 05/26/2012 4:10:52 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Rastus

If I had a grandma, she would look like Nancy Harris.


39 posted on 05/26/2012 6:50:09 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: jjotto

Another son of Obama. Notice how so many perps have adopted the Obama “chin held high” posture when their mug shot is taken.


40 posted on 05/26/2012 7:53:07 AM PDT by House Atreides
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