WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Police are looking for suspects whom they say beat, cut, sexually assaulted and set fire to a woman in Kansas' largest city.
The 36-year-old woman was discovered by firefighters who responded to a blaze in Fairmount Park just south of Wichita State University campus Friday night. She was found "within the fire" and had burns across her body and lacerations to her head, Sgt. Ron Hunt told KAKE, adding that she had also been sexually assaulted.
"This is an extremely violent crime," Hunt said.
The woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Similarly heinous crimes have appeared in headlines about Wichita recently. Last month, a 35-year-old man was charged with raping a 100-year-old woman in southeast Wichita, and a judge sentenced 18-year-old Marquatesz Redmon to 61 years in prison for the June sexual assault of a 76-year-old woman in the same city.
