Mirsa López, a 38-year-old woman living in Dallas, Texas, in the United States, was captured in recent days after being accused of causing a fire in the early hours of Saturday, October 12, in the mobile home park on Lombardy Lane, in said city, which destroyed four homes, also causing the death of a person with his three dogs.
As explained to NBC Gary Fisher, one of the owners, it all started after the woman knocked on his door to ask him to borrow the bathroom, to which the subject responded to ‘try later’ and closed the door to his house because he was supposedly asleep. .
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Five minutes after hearing an explosion in the place, which caused his home to begin to be consumed by flames, although he managed to be saved by the barking of his pets.
However, the fire quickly spread to three other mobile homes, destroying at least four vehicles and leaving several families homeless.
Meanwhile, a subject – whose identity was not revealed – and his three dogs died as a result of the fire.
Mirsa López helped cause the fire
According to KDFWThe woman admitted to starting the fire and even confessed to using a lighter to set fire to a plastic bag that she placed between the vehicle and Fisher’s house.
“She was annoying because Fisher didn’t let her in and she knew he was inside when she did,” the police declared after capturing the woman.
For their part, witnesses claimed to have seen Mirsa in a chair located outside the mobile home while they watched the fire spread.
Currently, the woman remains detained in the Lew Sterrett Jail, in Dallas, being accused of arson with the intent to cause damage to a dwelling, although the charges could be aggravated by the deaths she caused.
A bathroom, the cause of the fire?
Mirsa López also claimed to have had a relationship with Gary Fisher, for which she frequented his house; However, after several conflicts, he stopped receiving it.
According to the media, the refusal to let her enter to use the bathroom ended up being the trigger for the woman’s tension to cause the fire.