KS - Sharon Horn, 65, burned alive, 2 LEOs injured, Baxter Springs, 1 Oct 2017

[al66pine]

Kansas woman dies at Missouri hospital after man set her and 2 police officers on fire [h=2]Baxter Springs woman dies after being set on fire[/h]

• Crystal Thomas The Joplin Globe, Mo. (TNS)
• 59 min ago

"Officers Jimmy Hamilton and Justin Butler responded to what was reported to police as a domestic disturbance about 1:30 a.m. Saturday less than a mile away from the police station. When they arrived, they saw that a man, whose name was being withheld pending the filing of charges, had entered the home and assaulted Horn, according to Groves.

The man allegedly threw gasoline on Horn and the two officers and set them afire, Groves said, and accidentally set himself on fire as well. Officer Darryl Nadeau, also with Baxter Springs police, soon arrived and extinguished the flames, injuring himself in the process."


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_ce1ddc8e-46c2-5d29-b4e9-0ddb2e6b79c7.html
In ^ article, suspect is not named; no discussion re poss motive.

Sad, sad, sad.

 

[SeesSeas]

More from your link -
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_ce1ddc8e-46c2-5d29-b4e9-0ddb2e6b79c7.html
[…]
Sharon Horn died of her injuries at a Springfield, Mo., hospital.
[…]
Though [Cherokee County Sheriff David] Groves said he couldn't confirm the identity of the suspect just yet, one of Horn's neighbors, who was distantly related to her, said his adult son was the suspect.
The father said police came to the house at about 9 p.m. Friday looking for his son, who had not been at the residence at the time. After his son came home later, the father, who is blind in one eye, said he did not see his son leave to go Horn's house. He later learned that his son was at a Springfield burn unit and that he had been involved.
The father said he couldn't say for sure why his son did what he did, but that his son has a mental illness because of a "chemical imbalance" and had been on medication for two weeks.
"He pulled his hair out one day and said he really needed help," the father said. "He's supposed to do better when he's on medication."
[…]

 

[LadyL]

terrible! I hope the officers can make a full recovery ... I wonder what degree their burns are