Police on alleged racial attack: Woman's injuries self-inflicted

Police on alleged racial attack: Woman's injuries self-inflicted

October 24, 2012 7:34 AM

Winnsboro, La., chief of police Lester Thomas said that 20-year-old Sharmeka Moffitt apparently burned herself and then 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. KNOE's Ty Russell reports.

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