Texas police have filed charges against a man after a teenage girl died from burns she received last month.
Sebastian Lindsey, 23, faces manslaughter charges in the death of Madison Lewis, a 17-year-old girl from Jacksboro, Texas who died from her injuries on Sunday.
Lewis was sent to the emergency room on December 16 after suffering burns.
Witnesses told investigators there was a gathering of people behind a residence in the 600 block of West Pine, within the city limits of Jacksboro, where a small fire was burning inside a metal barrel.
Witnesses said Lewis was next to the barrel when an adult man – later identified as Lindsey – wanted to make the fire bigger so he took a petrol can and put petrol on the fire.
Sebastian Lindsey has been arrested and faces murder charges in the death of 17-year-old Madison Lewis. Jack County’s Madison Lewis suffered burns to 90% of her body after a gasoline fire exploded on top of her. Onita Henderson / Facebook
Gasoline and flames across the barrel set Lewis’s hair and clothes on fire.
Investigators later found that those present at the residence were afraid of getting into trouble because alcohol was on the premises.
Instead of calling 9-1-1, they drove the teenager to Faith Community Hospital in a private car.
Witnesses said Lewis was next to the barrel when Lindsey grabbed a can of gasoline and poured it on the fire. Madison’s mission for healing / Facebook
From there Lewis was flown by Air Evac helicopter to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where he was treated for burns over 90% of his body.
He died of his injuries on Sunday, January 7.
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