Woman Sets Dog On Fire, Accidentally Kills Kids

[warren]

Police: Woman Sets Dog On Fire, Accidentally Kills Kids
Case Is 15 Years Old

POSTED: 12:45 pm EST February 16, 2005

PITTSBURGH -- Investigators in Pittsburgh say they have solved a nearly 15-year-old case in which a woman and her friend allegedly set the family dog on fire because the woman's mother wouldn't get rid of it.

The dog, in turn, wound up setting the house on fire, killing the woman's two toddlers.

Cold-case detectives haven't said exactly what broke the case against the mother, 34-year-old Tequilla Newsome, and her friend, 29-year-old Lachan Russell. Russell was 15 at the time.

Cmdr. Maurita Bryant said the detectives reinterviewed about 20 witnesses in the case and at least one offered more details in recent weeks, after becoming older, wiser and more religious.

The fire, around 2:30 in the morning of July 11, 1990, killed 2-year-old Montelle Thornhill and 3-year-old Charita Thornhill.

Montelle was allergic to the dog, but his grandmother -- with whom the family lived -- refused to get rid of it, police said.

Newsome tried to shoo the dog from the home, but it wouldn't run away, Bryant said. Later, she took the dog to downtown Pittsburgh, but the animal found its way back to the house, several miles away. That's when, Bryant said, Newsome and Russell decided to douse the dog in kerosene and set it afire.


http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4204214/detail.html

[TheDoyler23]

ugh

[Ghost of Nibbs McPimpin]

They don't have knives? No kennel or pound? No water to drown it?

Yeah, let's BURN IT ALIVE, that'll solve that problem.

Innocent kids were killed, but if that weren't the case, I'd call it karma.

[TC4]

Well, what else would you expect from someone named "Tequilla"

[75004]

Unbelievable.

[cfujskins]

I'm sorry you had to read this, Huly.

[BIGGS_DADDY]

If it was her that died instead of the kids, this would have been a perfect candidate for the Darwin awards.

[Park City Skins]

[Destino]

Where is a good lightning strike wen you need it? This woman deserves the same fate she gave a helpless pet.

[Bugs']

I knew I shouldn't of read this story....

[TXREDSKINS44]

Man that is just plain awful!!

[redman]

Lord, please institute a minimum intelligence level for reproductive rights. I wonder how many kids this genius has graced the planet with since this incident . . .

[codeorama]

I knew I shouldn't have read...

[skins1972]

What bunch of idiots I hope they get the death penalty for beind stupid, how can a human being set an animal/pet on fire? Then her 2 kids died.. wow that is just freaking sad, stupid people are just everywhere.

P.S. best punishment for her is to set her arss on fire as well.

[Tom [Giants fan]]

Look for something like this to be an episode of the show, Cold Case in the near future.