A man set his wife on fire Monday inside the mobile phone store where she worked, police said.

 

The woman was working at T-Mobile store in Clinton when her estranged husband walked in about 10 a.m. and doused her with gasoline, said Cpl. Diane Richardson, a police spokeswoman. The woman ran outside, but the man chased her, then lit her clothes with a match.

 

"The suspect went inside with the intent of hurting her," Richardson said. "He didn't care whether or not anybody witnessed this. He had no regard for anybody else who was in the store."

 

Someone at the store was able to put out the fire, police said, but not before the woman suffered second- and third-degree burns to more than 50 percent of her body.

 

She was hospitalized in serious condition Monday night.

 

The suspect fled the scene in a burgundy Dodge minivan and was still at large Monday night, Richardson said. He was identified as Roger Byron Hargrave, 33, whose last known address was in Temple Hills.

 

The victim's sister, Shareen Jackson, said she knows the suspect, and he is extremely unstable.

 

"He's not in the right frame of mind. He should not be approached. He's a dangerous man," Jackson said.

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So someone at the store was able to put out the fire, but not call the police when a man doused her with gasoline?

 

Or even better, how about stopping the guy from pouring gasoline on her.