Woman set on fire in New York elevator over debt

Source: TOI

Woman set on fire in New York elevator over debt
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NEW YORK: As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His face was one her neighbors later recognized, and that she surely must have.

Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and a dust mask, which was perched atop his head like a pair of sunglasses. The sprayer was full of flammable liquid.

When the elevator opened on Saturday afternoon, the man sprayed the 73-year-old woman, who turned around and crouched down to try to protect herself, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. The attacker sprayed Gillespie in the face and continued to spray her “sort of methodically” over her head and parts of her body as her bags of groceries draped off her arms, Browne said.

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  1. I hardly read Times of India. It’s articles(New Delhi edition) is rich in negativity and its reader comments in online page are full of hate and madness. I prefer Hindustan times over Times of India. t’s articles are somewhat sensible. Ma’salama.

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