Women Set On Fire During Robbery
POSTED: Friday, December 14, 2007
UPDATED: 10:23 am EST December 14,
2007
LAKE WALES, Fla. -- A pregnant woman and another female co-worker were doused with gasoline and set on fire during a robbery at an insurance business in Lake Wales, police said.
Investigators said Leon Davis walked into the Nationwide Insurance Office Thursday and demanded money from two employees inside the business.
Chief Herbert Gillis said Davis apparently wasn't satisfied with the money and doused the women with gasoline. He then set them on fire, police said.
Yvonee Bustamonte, 26, and Jane Luciono, 23, who is 6 months pregnant, were able to make it to a nearby business and call for help.
"From looking at the burns on them, the fuel had to have gotten on them," an officer on the scene said. "Whether he specifically meant to pour it on them or whether it just got on them, I don't know. They were burned severely."
Both women were transported to a hospital with burns on 80 to 90 percent of their bodies. Both remain in critical condition early Friday.
Officers said a Good Samaritan was shot in the face by Davis as he tried to help the women. He was being treated at a Lake Wales hospital but his condition was not reported.
Davis turned himself in to sheriff's deputies at a Polk County sheriff's substation Thursday night.
Police said Davis was recently suspended from his job after a Nov. 30 arrest on larceny charges.
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