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Thread ID: 14542 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-07-15
2004-07-15 17:46 | User Profile
[I]Is someone you know in jeopardy of receiving this expression of "south of the border" lovey-dovey???[/I]
[SIZE=4][B]5 Die After Being Set on Fire in Seattle[/B][/SIZE]
Thu Jul 15,12:42 AM ET
By JIM COUR, Associated Press Writer
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040715/ap_on_re_us/fiery_deaths_13[/url]
SEATTLE - A man doused his girlfriend and her 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.
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Residents reported hearing the crash and seeing two adults engulfed in flames, stumbling across a road near Bonney Lake, a small town east of Tacoma. Firefighters found the bodies of the three children, a girl and two boys, in the back of the burned car.
Antigone Monique Allen, 18, who had recently filed an assault complaint against the 24-year-old man, survived for nearly eight hours at a Seattle hospital, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. She managed to tell investigators and family what happened before she died.
Laveda Allen said her sister had gone out the previous evening with her estranged boyfriend, identified as Genario Garcia.
Garcia snorted cocaine while they were out Tuesday night and the two began arguing, Laveda Allen said. Antigone ââ¬â "Mona" to her family and friends ââ¬â demanded that he take her home.
They stopped at a gas station, and, because she had been dozing, she didn't notice right away that he had filled a container with gasoline and placed it in the back seat, Laveda Allen said.
They drove along back roads before Garcia pulled a gun and pointed it at Antigone Allen's head. He grabbed the container and splashed gasoline on the children, Antigone and himself, Laveda Allen said.
He flicked a lighter and the car erupted, left the road and flipped over.
The two adults stumbled from the wreck, and Garcia, who had two guns with him, began shooting. Neighbors said he fired four or five shots. Troyer said an autopsy would be needed to determine whether any of the bullets hit Antigone Allen. Autopsies for the all the victims were scheduled Thursday.
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!"
Laveda Allen said doctors told her sister had burns over 85 percent of her body.
"She said she wanted to be with her babies. She wasn't angry. She knew she was going to die, and she was willing to go, but she wanted to say bye," she 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.
Laveda Allen said she wasn't upset with Garcia, who she said was the father of her sister's children ââ¬â Christine Allen-Garcia, 2 1/2; and two boys, Kristian Allen-Garcia, 1 1/2, and 8-month-old Adam Allen-Garcia.
"He was a good person," she said. [B]"He was an illegal immigrant here[/B], but he was a hard worker and tried to do what he had to do to make it.
"He just went over the deep end. He probably just loved her too much. He didn't want to see his kids being taken care of by another man."
The family is planning to bury her and the three children on Saturday, which would have been Antigone Allen's 19th birthday.
2004-07-15 18:23 | User Profile
I saw this article, but did not notice that he was an illegal alien. They sure do bury it in the article. Rule of Thumb -- if a news story ever seems to be going out of its way to not mention the ethnicity of a person, then you can assume that person is not white.
2004-07-15 23:16 | User Profile
What the hell? A woman is burning to death, and someone wouldn't/couldn't get by an electric freaking fence?? Gotta be kidding me. Any normal person would hav bolted over that fence and rolled that woman to get the flames out, instead of standing there and watching her burn like some asshole.
2004-07-16 07:14 | User Profile
How sad, how sick!
Prayers are in order and one has to wonder. All in all, I hate it when they say, hard workers. Part of me understands and part of me doesn't. Both my parents were business owners. I've owned several businesses myself. Mexicans are not hard workers but Americans are lazy workers. Mexicans are only hard workers until they become American....its that simple. Oh, the stories I could tell.
We now own a business where Mexicans work (I can't ask the husband whether they are legal or I might...) but he has my son working ther who is confronting many a problem. My husband is Mensa but dense in every sense of humanity. My son recently went throught this hour long ideal with an employee who said he didnt understand English. My son got irate and finallly punched the pricks time card. Needless to explain to my son about third world pricks (as it is all to common) who kill and return to Mexico as providers Oh the freaken govenment, how little the freaken pimps no and how little they care.