- From .telegraph.co.uk
A 20-year-old Black woman woman was set on fire in a KKK related race attack in Louisiana.
The family of 20-year-old Sharmeka
Moffitt says 60% of her body was burned in the horrific attack, which is
being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime Photo: SPLASH NEWSBy Katinka Dufour
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.”
Photo: .telegraph.co.uk
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