A San Francisco police car is parked in front of a laundromat Sunday where an argument started, which resulted in a woman being set on fire n San Francisco. San Francisco police say a woman is hospitalized with what are being described as “life-threatening injuries” after someone poured a flammable liquid on her and set her on fire.SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco police searched Sunday for a man suspected of throwing a flammable liquid at his girlfriend and severely burning her.
Officer Carlos Manfredi said witnesses in the city’s Bayview District reported hearing the woman screaming. She was taken to a hospital burn unit with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators believe her attacker was 22-year-old Dexter Oliver.
Manfredi said Oliver had a “dating relationship” with the woman, but he did not know the circumstances that led to the attack.
The victim’s sister told KGO-TV that Oliver doused his girlfriend with gasoline and lit her on fire during an argument at a nearby Laundromat.
Precious Craig said most of her sister’s face was burnt, and that the family expects her to recover.