Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Local man beaten, doused with gasoline and set afire in street
The smell of gasoline hung in the air as Shreveport police photographed the burned remains of clothing left behind by a 34-year-old Shreveport man who was beaten then set afire on a local street late Tuesday night.
Tyrone Chambers, whom authorities said lives in the area of Hollywood Avenue, was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for treatment of life-threatening burns over 70 percent to 80 percent of his body, Shreveport police detective Patrick McConnell said.
A group of men jumped Chambers in the 1100 block of Andrew Avenue about 10 p.m. and began beating him severely with bricks and sticks, police said.
At some point, one of the attackers got a five-gallon, red
plastic gasoline can, doused Chambers with the f
uel and set him afire, police said.
Puddles of gasoline could be seen smeared nearly the width of the street after the incident. And the can, propped against a nearby curb, had about a half-inch of gasoline in it.
"In the nine years I've worked down here, I've never seen anything like this. Nothing this deliberate," police Cpl. J.M. Sharpley said.
The nylon clothes Chambers shed littered the deserted street. leaving a charred path marking where he ran until he went into shock and collapsed. Police said someone in the neighborhood put out the fire before firefighters arrived.
No arrests had been made as of early this morning.
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Tyrone really, really, really, pissed somebody off dis time!
T.N.B.
Local man beaten, doused with gasoline and set afire in street
The smell of gasoline hung in the air as Shreveport police photographed the burned remains of clothing left behind by a 34-year-old Shreveport man who was beaten then set afire on a local street late Tuesday night.
Tyrone Chambers, whom authorities said lives in the area of Hollywood Avenue, was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for treatment of life-threatening burns over 70 percent to 80 percent of his body, Shreveport police detective Patrick McConnell said.
A group of men jumped Chambers in the 1100 block of Andrew Avenue about 10 p.m. and began beating him severely with bricks and sticks, police said.
At some point, one of the attackers got a five-gallon, red
plastic gasoline can, doused Chambers with the f
uel and set him afire, police said.
Puddles of gasoline could be seen smeared nearly the width of the street after the incident. And the can, propped against a nearby curb, had about a half-inch of gasoline in it.
"In the nine years I've worked down here, I've never seen anything like this. Nothing this deliberate," police Cpl. J.M. Sharpley said.
The nylon clothes Chambers shed littered the deserted street. leaving a charred path marking where he ran until he went into shock and collapsed. Police said someone in the neighborhood put out the fire before firefighters arrived.
No arrests had been made as of early this morning.
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Tyrone really, really, really, pissed somebody off dis time!
T.N.B.