Black Sentenced to Life for Lighting-Up His Longtime Girlfriend

DFW CBS Local
December 22, 2013

Antonio Hales
Antonio Hales girlfriend will need medical care for the rest of her life, due to the burns he inflicted on her.

A 23-year-old Arlington man has been sentenced to life in prison for lighting his longtime girlfriend on fire.

A Tarrant County jury sentenced Antonio Hales Jr. Tuesday after convicting him last week of attempted capital murder.

Prosecutors said Hales was on probation for drug convictions when he got into a fight with his girlfriend outside his drug supplier’s apartment. He doused her with gasoline inside their car, choked her and tossed a match in the vehicle lighting both her and the car on fire. She suffered burns on 40 percent of her body.

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