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SARASOTA, FL — A girl faces a number of prices after making an attempt to burn down a house with 5 individuals inside — together with 1-year-old twins — on New Year’s Eve, in keeping with a Sarasota Police Department news launch.
Andrea Allen, 35, of Sarasota was charged with 5 counts of tried homicide whereas engaged in arson, the company stated.
In addition to the twins, there have been two 35-year-old girls and a 47-year-old girl within the dwelling when Allen tried to set it on hearth.
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Police responded to a report of a residential hearth on Palmadelia Avenue on Dec. 31 round 8:30 a.m. Allen and one of many 35-year-old girls victims have been dropped at Blake Medical Center’s burn unit for therapy.
Detectives and an arson investigator realized that the suspect argued with two of the ladies within the dwelling the night time earlier than, leaving round 11 p.m.
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She returned to the house round 2 a.m., whereas two of the ladies have been speaking in a bed room with an open window. The girls imagine Allen overheard their dialog, in keeping with police.
Shortly after this, the suspect entered the house, demanding one of many girls go away. During their argument, Allen walked exterior, retrieved a gasoline can, and went again into the house with the gasoline can in a single hand and a light-weight within the different, SPD stated.
While standing in the lounge and holding these things, Allen requested, “You think I’m playing?”
One of the victims yelled to the second sufferer, who was in her bed room, to warn her earlier than grabbing the dual boys off the sofa and operating exterior, police stated.
Once exterior, the sufferer noticed smoke coming from the home and noticed Allen leaping out of the bed room window.
When detectives executed a search warrant on Dec. 31 at 6 p.m., they discovered a lighter and clothes coated in accelerant fluid, in keeping with SPD.
Allen was arrested after being handled at Blake Medical Center and is presently held on the Sarasota County Jail on no bond.
Anyone with any information on this case or different instances involving Allen is requested to name Detective Maria Llovio at 941-263-6836 or e-mail her at Maria.Llovio@SarasotaFl.gov. An nameless tip might be submitted to Crime Stoppers by calling 941-366-TIPS or on-line at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com.
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