Video shows woman setting fatal fire in Wisconsin

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Monday, June 19, 2017
Video shows woman setting fatal fire
The family of a woman caught on camera starting a fatal house fire in Wisconsin is urging her to turn herself in.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (KTRK) -- The family of a woman caught on camera starting a fatal house fire in Wisconsin is urging her to turn herself in.



Bystanders watched and recorded, as the woman appeared to break a window of a rooming house, pour gasoline inside, and set it on fire.



No one seemed to try to stop her.



As the suspect got away, a woman jumped out of the window to safety.



The flames quickly raced through the home, from one floor to the next.



A group of young men attempted a rescue by kicking in the front door. But as thick smoke poured out, they were unable to reach a 72-year-old man trapped inside.



The woman's family said the suspect recently had a fight with her boyfriend who lived in the house.



He was not home at the time of the fire.


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