Boy sets girl's hair extensions on fire in Brooklyn schoolyard
NBC New York - A Brooklyn eighth-grade girl was hospitalized with burns after a boy set her hair extensions on fire in a schoolyard Tuesday, authorities said.
NBC New York –Â A Brooklyn eighth-grade girl was hospitalized with burns after a boy set her hair extensions on fire in a schoolyard Tuesday, authorities said.
The Department of Education said the boy and girl were outside I.S. 68 in Canarsie when the boy, a sixth-grader, took a lighter from his pocket and lit the girl’s extensions. A student who witnessed the attack said it appeared the two were horsing around when the girl’s hair was set ablaze.
“He wrapped his arms around her and opened the fire and her hair just — it was just on fire. It was big, it was crazy,” said 13-year-old Malcolm Joseph, an eighth-grader at the school.
Joseph said the boy began hitting the girl over the head with his bookbag in an attempt to put out the flames but it appeared to make it worse.
“It was like flames, like real flames,” said Joseph. “Her hair was just decreasing.”
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