Police: Burned La. woman Sharmeka Moffitt made up racist attack story

WINNSBORO, La. - State police say a 20-year woman suffering from extensive burns apparently made up a story about being set on fire by three men wearing white hoodies who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car. Instead, authorities said Tuesday she burned herself and then fabricated the story about being attacked.

On Sunday at 8 p.m. Sharmeka Moffitt called 911 from a walking trail in Winnsboro and told authorities she had been doused in flammable liquid by three men wearing hoodies. She suffered extensive burns on more than half her body and was taken to LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport for treatment.

After two days of investigating the case, authorities on Tuesday said the evidence showed she apparently set herself on fire.

CBS affiliate KNOE in Monroe reports police found her fingerprints on a lighter, as well as DNA evidence on a charcoal fluid lighter bottle near the scene. They also said they believe she was the one who wrote "KKK" on her car. Authorities offered no possible motives for the incident.

Moffitt is reportedly still in critical condition.

[pkricker]

I think this woman is mentally ill. Please let's not make anything more of this than there actually is.

[Johnny121212678w]

All races have crazy people in them. Did the KKK ever burn someone? Yes.

[MrsHippy]

She now has as much credibility as OJ and the jury that acquitted him. Whites are always accused of racism, so lets call this what it really is. BLACK RACISM!

[Dave_Coulier]

"BLACK RACISM" is a racist phrase itself. The term you were looking for is "racism."

[Punki84]

What is the world comming to when we are setting ourselves on fire, shooting up places and killing innocent children. This world is freaking CRAZY!!!

[Rbgeller]

Sounds like you has talked to Rev Al Sharpton to get advice on how to fabricate stories of racism.

[sam1209]

Whetever could possess a person to commit such hideous assault on themself is utterly beyond me. Now the public is going to be asked to provide care for her recovery. Just cruel and selfish. I feel worse for her family, having to live with the fall out from this event.

[lifeduringwartime]

Sharmeka, don't be no fool, girl!

[HM8432]

Race-baiters like Miss Moffitt will resort to ANYTHING to keep up the illusion that America is a racist nation. If anything, Black-on-White racism is the REAL problem in today's state of race relations, and the fact that she tried to create a White boogeyman through her misdeed, only suceeded in proving that it was she, and not the local White populace she was seeking to demonize...is the true racist.

[awhatley1]

Did someone cry WOLF again?

[Millennial]

This is a sad story if any ring of truth on either side of the story, whether the Klan actually did this, because we DO know the KLAN is alive and well in the United States.

I have to ask why would she do such a thing to hershelf? Being mentally ILL might be a reason to you naysayers who want to blame her as if she did this to herself to simply blame the KLAN...what person in their RIGHT mind would do such a thing? Let's talk about these acts such as this, trust me, we know HISTORICALLY who's the leaders of the pack for doing such heinous acts, don't we?

Let's not forget the Klan is tied to the PD department... (the so called finger prints of the burn victim found on the lighter and gas can by the PD?)..and always have been since the klan existence, hence, the reason the KLAN was able to exist and commit acts of terrorism and the murder of INNOCENT americans, yes, african americans as a sport to terrorize, not one of the klan membrs were ever found guilty of acts of terrorism or murder.

[Aine57]

This is not the 1930s or Reconstruction. The Klan is a very small organization, but the way "activists" talk, all white people belong to it, and it's more powerful that all the corporations put together.

I am sick of people faking racist attacks to "send a message." The message that is sent is NOT that "racism is alive and well in AmeriKKKA!" but that racist attacks are mythological and phony and organized by victim wannabees craving attention and moral credibility. Those who actually ARE attacked see themselves mistrusted and their sufferings diminished in the public mind as a result of these "attacks."

It's a damn shame and it has the opposite effect of what is probably intended.

[Aine57]

Uh, TAWANA BRAWLEY?