Five killed as man sets woman and three children on fire in car near Seatt

[Shakespeare]

:cry:

A man doused his girlfriend and 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.

Residents reported hearing the crash and seeing two adults engulfed in flames, stumbling across a road near Bonny Lake, a small town east of Tacoma.

Antigone Monique Allen, 18, who had recently filed an assault complaint against the 24-year-old man, survived for about nine hours at a Seattle hospital, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. She managed to tell investigators what happened before she died.

"She was very brave and talked to detectives this morning," Troyer said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/14/national1700EDT0742.DTL

[Trajan]

1. OMG .....

What a HORRIFYING story ....

Those poor children ...

The BASTARD ! .....

HUGE sighs ....... why do they kill the kids ? .... how awful ...

[Warpy]

3. "if I can't have you, nobody can"

That's it in a nutshell.

[mermaid]

6. Yep...The Classic Dog In Manger Ploy

If you can't have it anymore, piss on it so no one else will want it, either.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Utterly tragic...

Damn... damn... :(

[maxsolomon]

4. classic america.

guns, cars & fire. the holy trinity.

[tooncesj0nes]

9. america doesnt have the market cornered on violence...

[flamingyouth]

5. I just heard about this and almost posted

It's just sickening. I can't imagine the mind of a person who could do such a thing - absolutely heartbreaking. :cry:

[sunny5555]

7. Thanks,

Its just like the 6:00 pm local news. If it bleeds,it leads.

[Shakespeare]

8. If you don't like the headline, don't click on the thread.

Always good advice. :eyes:

[Geo55]

10. This type of thing always sets me wondering

about fairnes & justice in this universe. Although I don't subscribe to the heaven/hell judgmental God ideology ....there's just got to be some kind of reckoning in these things.