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Mom, locked in gas station, doused with fuel and set on fire by boyfriend
BY ROCHELLE E.B. GILKEN
Palm Beach Post

RIVIERA BEACH - A gas station clerk was doused with fuel, set on fire and locked in a burning store after an argument with her boyfriend, police said.

The attack at the Mobil Gas station around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday left Tanya Hughey, a 38-year-old mother, engulfed in flames and burned over 90 percent of her body.

Witnesses put out the flames before rescue officials arrived. But on Tuesday night, Hughey was listed in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

The man who police charged with lighting the match is 49-year-old Lester Parsons, who Hughey has dated for the past few years and occasionally lived with at Broadmoor Apartments on Blue Heron Boulevard in Riviera Beach, neighbors said.