Man locked up Mom and her 3-YO son and set the apartment on fire before fleeing the scene
By RoseKiss
After a intense argument with her boyfriend, one mom believed they had made up after he came back home and acted as if everything was fine. However, the woman learned how wrong she was when the boyfriend trapped her and her 3-year-old son inside their burning house.
Before finding her house on fire, the woman and her boyfriend, identified as G'Andre Antoine Clark, had gotten into a fight late at night. The 22-year-old boyfriend then left the house and returned after a while; he acted as if things were normal between them and the mother was under the impression that they made up after the fight, according to KHOU 11.
Later that night, the mother and her son were fast asleep in the bedroom when smoke began filling her unit at the Graham Apartments at 250 Uvalde Road, northeast of Houston.
The thick smoke woke the mother up, and she desperately tried to escape but found herself trapped inside the bedroom because the door was tightly held shut with an electrical cord.
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The mother then leaned out the window and began screaming for help until finally, firefighters were called to the scene.
Jumping into action, the firefighters used a ladder to quickly get to the mother and child, and they brought the two to safety, according to Click2Houston. The two were soon rushed to the hospital to receive medical attention.
Once the fire was put out, investigators found that the fire was confined to a couch cushion inside the house; however, because of the cushion's material, the fire filled the house with thick clouds of smoke.
Later, investigators spoke to the mother and understood that the couple had a dispute just hours before the incident.
Ed Gonzalez, who serves as the Harris County Sheriff, wrote on Twitter about the incident and said officers were "on the scene of an apartment fire at 250 Uvalde Rd. Once on scene, it was learned that an adult female and her 2-yr-old child were transported to a hospital. The female's boyfriend had allegedly locked the female & child in a room and possibly set fire..."
The Harris County Fire Marshal identified G'Andre and arrested him for locking the mother and child up before intentionally setting the apartment on fire. The boyfriend now faces charges of arson of a habitation with fire as a deadly weapon.
Following the incident, ABC13 was able to speak to the mother when she returned to the house to fetch some items from her apartment.
"I couldn't see. There was smoke everywhere. I had to feel. You know, how blind people do? I had to do that," the devastated mother said.
Although the mother and child received treatment for smoke inhalation, they are likely to survive the incident but are yet to recover from the damage and trauma that G'Andre left them with.
"All I did was just love him and he just put my child in jeopardy," the mother said. "That's it."
Cover image source: KHOU 11
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