TORCH HELL OVER
Dreamed of revenge, but she dies in hosp
Before she died, Alicia Avery (r.) told ex-beau Eddie Williams (above, left) she hoped to get even with Larry McGloster (inset) for brutal hammer attack and torching.
She never got her revenge.
A Brooklyn woman cops say was set on fire and bashed in the head with a hammer by her boyfriend has died after three months of agony.
“We thought she was going to pull through,” said Eddie Williams, 35, who dated victim Alicia Avery on and off for eight years and was at her side as she struggled to recover from the attack.
On days she was feeling better, she would ask doctors to dilute her medication so she could communicate clearly.
“She talked to me a lot,” Williams said. “She knew everything. She wanted revenge.”
Avery, 32, was left with burns across 90% of her body and a fractured skull after Larry McGloster, 26, allegedly attacked her inside his apartment in the Frederick Douglass Houses on the Upper West Side June 12 after an argument.
She was rushed to Harlem Hospital in critical condition. McGloster was arrested later that day after a brief manhunt.
For three months, Avery clung to life at the hospital, dreaming of the day she could get back at the man who burned her.
Then on June 3, her health took a turn for the worse.
“The skin grafts weren’t working. Her body was rejecting them,” a heartbroken Williams said. “Then she got an infection and they had to amputate her arm.”
Avery died at the hospital Thursday.
Williams became wistful as he spoke to the Daily News from the couple’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment Monday.
“She loved her beauty,” he said, staring off into the distance. “She’s got a million pairs of shoes upstairs right now. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them.”
McGloster is being held without bail in Manhattan Detention Center on charges of attempted murder, assault and arson. He’s due back in court Oct. 11 and will likely face upgraded charges because of Avery’s death.
“They have to charge him with murder now because that’s how she died — he murdered her,” Williams fumed.
A wake for Avery will be held Thursday at the Frank Bell Funeral Home in Brooklyn, followed by a funeral Friday and burial at Pine Lawn Memorial Park on Long Island.
“I’ve been crying a whole lot,” Williams said. “I wish we could’ve had a baby, you know?”