Video shows woman setting fatal fire in Wisconsin

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Sunday, June 18, 2017
Video shows woman setting fatal fire
Video shows woman setting fatal fire in Wisconsin. Gray Hall reports during Action News at Noon on June 18, 2017.

The family of a woman caught on camera starting a fatal house fire in Wisconsin is urging her to turn herself in.

Bystanders watched and recorded, as the woman appeared to break a window of a rooming house, pour gasoline inside, and set it on fire.

No one seemed to try to stop her.

As the suspect got away, a woman jumped out of the window to safety.

The flames quickly raced through the home, from one floor to the next.

A group of young men attempted a rescue by kicking in the front door. But as thick smoke pours out, they were unable to reach a 72-year-old man trapped inside.

The woman's family said the suspect recently had a fight with her boyfriend who lived in the house.

He was not home at the time of the fire.

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