Burned gal also hammer victim
The woman set on fire by her boyfriend on the Upper West Side suffered a fractured skull and burns on 90% of her body in the nightmarish event she managed to survive, prosecutors said Thursday.
Larry McGloster, 26, was arraigned on assault, attempted murder and arson charges in Manhattan court after surrendering to authorities for the horrifying Tuesday attack on 32year-old Alicia Avery around 11:45 a.m. inside his eighth-floor apartment at the Douglass Houses on Columbus Ave. near W. 100th St.
“The defendant struck the victim multiple times in the head with a hammer, causing multiple wounds to the victim’s head (that resulted in) a skull fracture,” Assistant District Attorney Nowles Heinrich said.
He “set the victim on fire using a match and turpentine,” both of which were recovered at the scene, Heinrich said.
“The victim does remain in very critical condition at Harlem Hospital,” he added. “She has burns covering approximately 90% of her body.”
Avery “fled after being set on fire and began to scream and yell in the hallway knocking on doors,” Henrich told Judge Suzanne Adams.
A quick-thinking neighbor who answered the door “saw the victim entirely on fire and then put out the fire with a blanket.”