Salon.com > Self-immolation http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Louisiana woman set self on fire, wrote “KKK” on own car http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/louisiana_woman_set_self_on_fire_wrote_kkk_on_own_car/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/louisiana_woman_set_self_on_fire_wrote_kkk_on_own_car/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13050801 When news emerged of a 20-year-old Louisiana woman hospitalized for severe burns with "KKK" scrawled on her car, everything pointed to a vicious racist attack. However, an examination of DNA evidence led police to believe that Sharmeka Moffitt set herself afire and wrote on her own car in toothpaste. On Tuesday night, Moffitt admitted as much.

According to Louisiana's Gant Daily News, "Winnsboro Police Chief Lester Thomas announced that Moffitt confirmed she set herself on fire, and scrawled the initials on her car. Her motive remains unknown." The young woman had originally told police that she was attacked by three men in white hoodies.

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