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(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:
**MISSING PERSON**
Have you seen Patricia Ventre? She’s a 77 year old woman missing from the vicinity of Bedford Avenue and Avenue Y. If seen please call 911 or the 61 Precinct at 718-627-6611. **PLEASE SHARE** pic.twitter.com/exBvRIUjsx— NYPD 61st Precinct (@NYPD61Pct) March 9, 2021
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.
