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Police rule out random attack on teenager set on fire in car on Gold Coast | |
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Police are waiting to talk to a badly burned teenager who was doused in petrol and set on fire as he sat in his car on the Gold Coast. | Police are waiting to talk to a badly burned teenager who was doused in petrol and set on fire as he sat in his car on the Gold Coast. |
Samuel Reeve, 19, suffered serious burns one side of his upper body and on Monday morning was in an induced coma in a Brisbane hospital. He is in a serious, but stable, condition. | |
Police have ruled out a random attack, saying the fuel used came from inside the vehicle rather than being thrown into it. Detective Acting Inspector Mark Procter said: “We know that the fire has started inside the car.” | |
Police are seeking witnesses and are yet to rule out whether a second person might have been in the car. It is also unknown why Reeve, who comes from the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah, was on the Gold Coast. | |
Southport resident Sammie Wilson used a garden hose to help the teenager. Wilson said Reeve had banged on her door screaming for help and she grabbed the hose. | |
Related: Gold Coast teenager doused in petrol and set alight in his car | Related: Gold Coast teenager doused in petrol and set alight in his car |
“Apparently, someone threw petrol on him and lit him on fire,” she told the Gold Coast Bulletin. “He didn’t know who did it.” | |
She said the sight of the man had been distressing for her and her toddler daughter. “I can’t believe someone has done this. It is shocking. The smell was awful and layers of his skin were gone.” | |
Paramedic Grant Gamble praised Wilson for her quick actions to cool the victim, who has burns to his face, neck, shoulders and back. | |
Police are yet to talk to the injured man and could not confirm speculation that the incident may have been linked to a road rage attack. | |
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