New York

Queens woman, sons rescued after jilted boyfriend set her on fire:

Reason to Blow Up the World...

A jilted boyfriend doused his ex-lover with gasoline on Sunday and set her on fire, trapping the burning woman and her two sons in their Queens apartment, officials said.

Latisha Shaw screamed in anguish as the flames raced up her legs seconds after her crazed former beau tossed a match on her gasoline-soaked pants, witnesses said.

Khenan Clarke - a heartless ex-con who neighbors said looked like "Satan" - also set a blaze in the fourth-floor stairwell of the Queensbridge Houses building, preventing Shaw and her two boys from fleeing to safety, authorities said.

Shaw, 22, fought through the smoke and reached the roof of the housing project where she collapsed and was rescued by firefighters, officials said.

Her two sons - Jayden, 5, and Ahshi, 3 - were pulled from the burning apartment by firefighters and were being treated for smoke inhalation, officials said. They should recover fully.

Shaw, who suffered burns on her stomach and legs, was listed in critical but stable condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, officials said.

The couple started feuding about 10:45 a.m. and things quickly escalated into a shouting match.

Investigators said Clarke, who is Jayden's father, stormed off and bought several cans of gasoline. He returned to the Long Island City apartment building to set the fire.

Clarke, 25, inadvertently splashed himself with the gasoline and his own clothes burst into flames when he tossed the match on Shaw, witnesses said.

Lewis watched in horror as a singed Clarke calmly walked out of the burning building to his car.

"[He] just started peeling the skin off his legs like nothing even happened," said Lewis. "It looked like ... Satan himself. He had this blank look on his face."

Clarke was charged with attempted murder, arson and reckless endangerment.

How much hate and anger do you have to have to drive away from an argument, buy a can of gas then come back and set everything and everyone on fire?

One point for being a coward who needs to harass a woman , one more point for setting a woman on fire, two more points for almost setting her kids on fire, one more point for putting everyone else in the apartment building in danger, another point for setting yourself on fire like a dumbass, another point for being an ex-con who can't stay out of trouble, and one last point for obviously having no soul. That's 8.

I hope that when you pulled the skin off your legs that it was the most painful thing you've ever experienced.