Mrluvaluva
24-10-2012, 01:03 AM
I read this earlier today and was quite horrified...
Sharmeka Moffitt was exercising alone on a walking trail in a city park in Winnsboro, Louisiana when three men wearing white hoods allegedly attacked her.
The men doused her in a flammable liquid and set her on fire causing third-degree burns.
Miss Mofftitt had put out the flames using water from a spigot before police responded to her 911 call.
Miss Moffitts’ sister Michelle told the Shreveport Times: “She called 911, then she called me. She said she had been burned, she had been set on fire. I stayed on the phone until I got (to the park) even though she wasn’t able to say anything.”
The letters “KKK” - in reference to the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan - were spray painted on the hood of her car as well as a racial slur.
Miss Moffitt could not recall what race her attackers were. The place where the attack took place has no surveillance cameras but the crime lab is analysing multiple pieces of evidence.
The FBI is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime but no arrests had been made as of late Monday according to Louisiana State Police spokesman Lt. Julie Lewis. Speculations that the victim was wearing an Obama-campaign t-shirt hen the attacked occurred were denied by her mother.
Franklin Sheriff Kevin Cobb called it "a horrific event" and said authorities would "follow the facts and seek justice".
Miss Moffitt is at the LSU Medical Centre Shreveport in critical conditions.
Her mother said: “They want to take the dead skin off and place other skin there if they can. I have no idea who did it…I want them to pay for what they did to her.” She also said that on “both of her arms, there are third degree burns down her chest and legs-first degree. Basically her arms are real bad.”
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9627603/Black-woman-set-on-fire-in-alleged-KKK-attack.html)
However, I have just read this...
A Louisiana woman who told police she was subjected to a racist attack in which three men set her alight and scrawled KKK on her car was lying, investigators have said.
"The wounds were self-inflicted," Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI's Louisiana bureau said.
Sharmeka Moffitt, 20, was seriously burned in the incident and remains in critical condition.
She called police from a park in the town of Winnsboro on Sunday night and told them three men in white hoodies doused her with a flammable liquid and ignited it.
The letters KKK, for the white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan, and a racial slur were scrawled on her car in what appeared to be toothpaste.
According to local media, investigators decided the burns were self-inflicted after finding Ms Moffitt's fingerprints on a cigarette lighters and lighter fluid.
Louisiana's KATC News reported her family had issued a statement saying: "Our family is devastated to learn the circumstances surrounding our daughter's injuries.
"While this was not the resolution we had expected, it is a resolution, and we appreciate the thorough investigation by the local and state police as well as federal agencies.
"We are sincerely sorry for any problems this may have caused and wish to express our appreciation for the outpouring of love, prayers and support we have received from friends, acquaintances, church organisations and government officials."
The FBI was called in to assist local authorities because the incident was initially considered a possible hate crime.
Sky (http://news.sky.com/story/1001795/woman-set-herself-on-fire-in-staged-kkk-attack)
Why the hell would, and how could, someone do such a thing to themselves? She must have serious mental problems.
Sharmeka Moffitt was exercising alone on a walking trail in a city park in Winnsboro, Louisiana when three men wearing white hoods allegedly attacked her.
The men doused her in a flammable liquid and set her on fire causing third-degree burns.
Miss Mofftitt had put out the flames using water from a spigot before police responded to her 911 call.
Miss Moffitts’ sister Michelle told the Shreveport Times: “She called 911, then she called me. She said she had been burned, she had been set on fire. I stayed on the phone until I got (to the park) even though she wasn’t able to say anything.”
The letters “KKK” - in reference to the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan - were spray painted on the hood of her car as well as a racial slur.
Miss Moffitt could not recall what race her attackers were. The place where the attack took place has no surveillance cameras but the crime lab is analysing multiple pieces of evidence.
The FBI is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime but no arrests had been made as of late Monday according to Louisiana State Police spokesman Lt. Julie Lewis. Speculations that the victim was wearing an Obama-campaign t-shirt hen the attacked occurred were denied by her mother.
Franklin Sheriff Kevin Cobb called it "a horrific event" and said authorities would "follow the facts and seek justice".
Miss Moffitt is at the LSU Medical Centre Shreveport in critical conditions.
Her mother said: “They want to take the dead skin off and place other skin there if they can. I have no idea who did it…I want them to pay for what they did to her.” She also said that on “both of her arms, there are third degree burns down her chest and legs-first degree. Basically her arms are real bad.”
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9627603/Black-woman-set-on-fire-in-alleged-KKK-attack.html)
However, I have just read this...
A Louisiana woman who told police she was subjected to a racist attack in which three men set her alight and scrawled KKK on her car was lying, investigators have said.
"The wounds were self-inflicted," Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI's Louisiana bureau said.
Sharmeka Moffitt, 20, was seriously burned in the incident and remains in critical condition.
She called police from a park in the town of Winnsboro on Sunday night and told them three men in white hoodies doused her with a flammable liquid and ignited it.
The letters KKK, for the white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan, and a racial slur were scrawled on her car in what appeared to be toothpaste.
According to local media, investigators decided the burns were self-inflicted after finding Ms Moffitt's fingerprints on a cigarette lighters and lighter fluid.
Louisiana's KATC News reported her family had issued a statement saying: "Our family is devastated to learn the circumstances surrounding our daughter's injuries.
"While this was not the resolution we had expected, it is a resolution, and we appreciate the thorough investigation by the local and state police as well as federal agencies.
"We are sincerely sorry for any problems this may have caused and wish to express our appreciation for the outpouring of love, prayers and support we have received from friends, acquaintances, church organisations and government officials."
The FBI was called in to assist local authorities because the incident was initially considered a possible hate crime.
Sky (http://news.sky.com/story/1001795/woman-set-herself-on-fire-in-staged-kkk-attack)
Why the hell would, and how could, someone do such a thing to themselves? She must have serious mental problems.