Woman Sets Her Roommate on Fire Over a Thrown-Out Plate of Spaghetti
Clearwater, FL police say 33-year-old Melissa Dawn Sellers was taken into custody this week after she went a little overboard and called her roommate some names she regretted the next morning. Just kidding, she lit him on fire!
Police say Sellers and her roommate, 42-year-old Carlos Ortiz Jr.—spoiler alert!!!—had both been drinking when Ortiz broke the cardinal roommate rule of not fucking with the other person's food.
Sellers apparently went into a rage when she realized Ortiz had thrown out her spaghetti and meatballs, which she had presumably kept in the fridge for a week or two but fully planned on eating at some point, so if you need more space, Carlos, why don't you just clean out your own damn shelf and shut the hell up?
And then she lit him on fire.
"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 Causevic.
Causevic said she threw water on Ortiz and tore his shirt off, trying to put out the fire.
"When he got up, his face was like melting off, it was pink and sore," said Causevic. "His lips were burning."
Ortiz was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition with burns to his face, chest and shoulders.
Sellers has been charged with aggravated battery. Hopefully she will meet someone nice in jail.
