TX - A 78-year-old Grand Prairie woman was set on fire after being sexually assaulted in her home Monday, police said.
The woman, who police did not identify, is at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where she is recovering from second-degree burns to her stomach and her chin, said Det. John Brimmer, a Grand Prairie police spokesman.
Investigators say they believe the man, described as in his mid-20s and weighing between 160 and 190 pounds, set the woman on fire after he poured rubbing alcohol on her chest.
Police said the man gained entry to the woman's home on Sunnyvale Road after he introduced himself as "Daniel," a 22-year-old from Chicago who was living in an area motel. He told her that he was doing a communication exercise that would help him get into college. He told her that the more people he talked to the more points her earned.
At some point during the conversation the man attacked her. After talking to several witnesses in the area, police say they believe he may have been selling magazines.
Police describe the man as black, between 6-feet and 6-feet-4-inches tall and wearing his hair in corn row-style braids. During the assault, he was wearing a white shirt and pants that were black, yellow and red.
Police are asking anyone with information about the case or who may have been contacted by a man fitting this description, to call Detective Tracy Hinson at 972-237-8777 or Crime Stoppers at 972-988-8477.
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Elderly Grand Prairie woman raped, set on fire
The woman, who police did not identify, is at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where she is recovering from second-degree burns to her stomach and her chin, said Det. John Brimmer, a Grand Prairie police spokesman.
Investigators say they believe the man, described as in his mid-20s and weighing between 160 and 190 pounds, set the woman on fire after he poured rubbing alcohol on her chest.
Police said the man gained entry to the woman's home on Sunnyvale Road after he introduced himself as "Daniel," a 22-year-old from Chicago who was living in an area motel. He told her that he was doing a communication exercise that would help him get into college. He told her that the more people he talked to the more points her earned.
At some point during the conversation the man attacked her. After talking to several witnesses in the area, police say they believe he may have been selling magazines.
Police describe the man as black, between 6-feet and 6-feet-4-inches tall and wearing his hair in corn row-style braids. During the assault, he was wearing a white shirt and pants that were black, yellow and red.
Police are asking anyone with information about the case or who may have been contacted by a man fitting this description, to call Detective Tracy Hinson at 972-237-8777 or Crime Stoppers at 972-988-8477.
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Elderly Grand Prairie woman raped, set on fire
Has it come to "Lock the doors and don't leave home"?
ReplyDeleteMy very best to the victim. I hope and pray she can recover and live independently.
ReplyDeleteIf not, she will become a victim again til the end, as a ward of the state and forced to live in a nursing home usually forced to take psychotropic drugs.
I hope they catch this sob and barbeque him!
ReplyDeleteIf this criminal returns to Chicago, I hope he is taken off the streets by Chicago's finest, without any consideration for his well-being and thrown into lock-up where his alleged crimes will surely anger other prisoners in the jail.
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