The incident happened Tuesday morning on Uvalde Road in east Houston. ABC13 was at the complex during the evening when the woman came back to get a few of her belongings.
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"I couldn't see. There was smoke everywhere. I had to feel. You know, how blind people do? I had to do that," explained the woman.
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Law enforcement sources told ABC13 the suspect is G'Andre Clark. The woman said she and Clark got into a fight just before the fire.
The woman and her 3-year-old son were not seriously hurt in the incident. They were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
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"All I did was just love him and he just put my child in jeopardy. That's it," she said.
Clark now has been charged with arson of a habitation with fire as a deadly weapon.
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