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Clearwater Police have charged a Florida woman with aggravated battery after she allegedly set her boyfriend on fire.
Police say the incident started around 2:30 a.m., at a home on the 300 block of Gunn Avenue where 33-year-old Melissa Dawn Sellers and 42-year-old Carlos Ortiz Jr. got into an altercation.
According to a witness, Ines Causevic, the pair had been drinking and Sellers became furious at Ortiz because he had tossed out her spaghetti and meatballs.
Sellers then allegedly doused Ortiz's upper body with nail polish remover and ignited with him a lighter or cigarette, authorities said.
"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.
"When he got up, his face was like melting off, it was pink and sore," he added. "His lips were burning."
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Ortiz was transported to Tampa General Hospital. He is currently listed in critical condition with burns to his face, chest and shoulders.
Sellers left the home before police arrived, but returned later and was arrested, authorities said.
Friends and neighbors of Ortiz were sickened by the attack.
"He's just a nice man," said neighbor Katherine Mudse. "He was trying to help this girl. He took care of her dogs, she got evicted."
Sellers was charged with aggravated battery.
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