(Memphis) It’s not easy to see a son in critical condition, but Mother Nola Garrison is staying by his side, “He has a tube down his throat to breathe and now they had to put a feeding tube through his nose, so you know he’s in bad shape.”
Her son, Cedric, is covered in 3rd degree burns.
Police say he was set on fire by the mother of his five children, Tamika Jones.
“She is hiding out but somebody know where she is,” said Garrison.
“Somebody knows.”
The attack happened outside a convenience store on Castalia Street.
His mom says, Cedric went in to a buy a pack of cigarettes and when he came out, Jones was waiting for him.
Police say she dumped gasoline on him and then lit him on fire.
Jones then took off in a car and hasn’t been seen since.
“I don`t know what her motive is. I don`t know why,” said the victim’s sister, Elizabeth Norton.
Police say the motive could be money.
According to the police report, one of her children told officers that she had been stressed out about bills and frustrated with Cedric.
But Cedric’s mom says Jones’ motive may have been more sinister than that, “To my knowledge, she don`t want him and she don`t want nobody else to have him.”
Nola said Jones and Cedric had been on-and-off-again for years, but that Jones had always been jealous, and abusive.
“She he has cut him, she has burned him with a curling iron and whatever else,” said Garrison.
But the family never thought it would come to this.
“I never thought it would get this far. It`s sad. It`s very sad,” said Norton.
“She needs to be brought to justice,” said Garrison.
Police say Jones was last seen driving a Gray Dodge Stratus.
She is facing aggravated assault charges.
