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Police Suspect Hate Crime after Woman Set on Fire

By DAILY MAIL

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The community of Winnsboro, Louisiana is in shock after 20-year-old Sharmeka Moffitt was set on fire in an attack on Sunday night at a community park.

October 23, 2012 Updated Oct 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM PDT

A 20-year-old African American woman told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana.

Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis says Sharmeka Moffitt was found with burns on 60 per cent of her body when police responded to her 911 call on Sunday night.

Moffitt was taken to LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, where she remained in critical condition on Monday afternoon.

Moffitt told police the men doused her in a flammable liquid and set her on fire while she walked through the Civitan Park around 8pm.
She extinguished the fire using water from a spigot before a police officer arrived.

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