Melissa Dawn Sellers, 33, was arrested for dousing her roommate Carlos Ortiz Jr., 42, with nail polish remover and setting him on fire.
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Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Melissa Dawn Sellers, 33, was arrested for dousing her roommate Carlos Ortiz Jr., 42, with nail polish remover and setting him on fire. </figure>
An argument turned vicious in Florida when an incensed woman poured fingernail polish remover over her roommate then ignited it.
The fight, according to a witness, erupted after Carlos Ortiz Jr., 42, threw out Melissa Dawn Sellers’ spaghetti and meatballs, according to Clearwater police.
“She was setting little objects on fire, then that turned into pouring nail polish remover all over him, and then all of a sudden, the lighter sparked and he lit on fire,” said Ines Causevic, a friend of the victim, Bay News 9 reported.
Sellers had been staying with Ortiz after losing her job at Wal-Mart.
Causevic said she doused her friend with water and pulled off his shirt, which was on fire.
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Nikolay Trubnikov/Getty Images/iStockphoto The weapon of choice: spaghetti. </figure>
He is hospitalized in critical condition with burns to his face and torso, the station said.
“When he got up, his face was like melting off,” Causevic said. “His lips were burning.”
Sellers, 33, was charged with aggravated battery.
She has a prior conviction from 2008 for battery.
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Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Melissa Dawn Sellers, 33, was arrested for dousing her roommate Carlos Ortiz Jr., 42, with nail polish remover and setting him on fire. </figure>
An argument turned vicious in Florida when an incensed woman poured fingernail polish remover over her roommate then ignited it.
The fight, according to a witness, erupted after Carlos Ortiz Jr., 42, threw out Melissa Dawn Sellers’ spaghetti and meatballs, according to Clearwater police.
“She was setting little objects on fire, then that turned into pouring nail polish remover all over him, and then all of a sudden, the lighter sparked and he lit on fire,” said Ines Causevic, a friend of the victim, Bay News 9 reported.
Sellers had been staying with Ortiz after losing her job at Wal-Mart.
Causevic said she doused her friend with water and pulled off his shirt, which was on fire.
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Nikolay Trubnikov/Getty Images/iStockphoto The weapon of choice: spaghetti. </figure>
He is hospitalized in critical condition with burns to his face and torso, the station said.
“When he got up, his face was like melting off,” Causevic said. “His lips were burning.”
Sellers, 33, was charged with aggravated battery.
She has a prior conviction from 2008 for battery.
