A man is in critical condition after his girlfriend burned him with cooking oil at a Hartford apartment Friday morning, according to police.
Police responded to 116 South Street after Julia Rivera, 47, called police and said she burned her boyfriend to death, according to the police report.
“Arrest me. I did it. I burned him alive,” Rivera told officers who showed up at her house to investigate, according to police.
Officers handcuffed Rivera, put her in the cruiser and found a crime scene, but there was no victim inside.
The man had run off before police arrived. They found him at 18 South Street suffering from second-degree burns over 70 percent of his body.
Rivera is accused of pouring hot corn oil from a frying plan on her boyfriend, the Hartford Courant reported.
The victim was taken to the Connecticut Burn Center at Bridgeport Hospital.
Rivera was arrested, charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, violation of a protective order and disorderly conduct and taken to Hartford Hospital because she was having chest pains, police said. She is being held on $200,000.
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