NEW YORK (AP) - As Deloris Gillespie goes up in the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man is waiting. His face is one she surely must have recognized.
Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looks something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and a dust mask. The sprayer, however, is full of flammable liquid.
New York police say when the elevator opened Saturday afternoon Jerome Isaac sprayed the 73-year-old woman "sort of methodically" and then set her on fire. Isaac, 47, later explains to police he did it because she owed him $2,000 for some work he had done for her.
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