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A Brooklyn Man Fatally Sets Himself On Fire; His Mother Is Missing

(Brooklyn, NY/77WABC)-Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 77-year-old Sheepshead Bay woman missing from the family’s residence on Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn after her 46-year-old son fatally set himself on fire early Tuesday in the backyard of the family’s home.

Police say firefighters responded to a 911 call of a fire and put out the blaze around 5:35 am. A witness told police that the man poured a flammable liquid on himself before setting himself on fire. The NYPD says the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A search is ongoing for the man’s mother, 77-year-old mother Patricia Ventre of 4547 Bedford Ave.  in Brooklyn, NY.

Ventre is 5’1 tall and weighs 120 lbs:

Anyone with information in regard to this missing person is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

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