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Holiday Torching Victim Fighting for Life | Essentials

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Holiday Torching Victim Fighting for Life

Edgar Brackett and Hiram Vood (LOC)
Edgar Brackett and Hiram Vood (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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A Florida man is fighting for his life after being doused with gasoline and set on fire on Christmas in a horrific attack that has baffled police. Darrell Brackett, 44, was driving with his girlfriend at 11:30 p.m. in Miami when his car ran out of gas and he walked to a nearby U-Gas station to fill up a can of gas. He told his girlfriend to wait for him in the car. After leaving the station, "witnesses reported that they saw him running in the middle of the street on fire," Miami-Dade Police said in a statement. Brackett's mother Bridgett Brackett said she has been told that her son was surrounded by three men who "doused him with gas and set him on fire." "It's heartbreaking.

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Darrell Brackett

Overall Sentiment: -0.0113107

Relevance: 0.938107

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-0.611732"It's heartbreaking. It's horrendous," Bridgett Brackett told ...
-0.562478"It's heartbreaking. It's horrendous," Bridgett Brackett told ABCNews.com. "I would never imagine that this would happen to my son."
0"He has no skin left on his body," Bridgett Brackett said. ...
0.0441439"He has no skin left on his body," Bridgett Brackett said. "The only things that didn't burn were his feet and short jeans."
0Brackett said authorities told her that his son had kept repeating one thing about his attackers when authorities arrived on scene, "The only thing I did was ask a question and they didn't have to do this to me."
-0.475672"Nobody can imagine how a person could be so cruel to another human being for no reason," Brackett said. ...
-0.416771"Nobody can imagine how a person could be so cruel to another human being for no reason," Brackett said. "It's sad how the world has changed so much."
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  • Number of Quotes: 7
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -2.0225091
  • Mean: -0.28892987142857
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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