A woman being sought by cops for setting a Queens arson that left her ex-boyfriend and his new female friend dead screamed, “I don’t care if you die!” as she fled the scene, according to police and witnesses.
The two-story garage where the victims were squatting on 91st Ave. near 175th St. in Jamaica as went up in flames at about 6:35 a.m. on Nov. 2. Shocked neighbors chased the suspected arsonist for a short distance but lost her.
Cops suspect the fire was set by a former girlfriend of victim Edward Jacobs, police sources told the Daily News.
“This is a jealous girlfriend,” friend Sad-e Jean Baptiste, 26, said of the suspect. “[Jacobs] didn’t deserve this. He didn’t do nothing bad in this world to deserve this.”
Jacobs, 35, died in the blaze along with a woman visiting him, Anastasia “Star” Ettienne, 33. Their deaths have been deemed homicides by the NYPD.
“[The suspect] did tell me a couple of times that she wanted to do this,” Jean Baptiste said. “She told a couple of people that next time she sees him with another girl, ‘I swear I’ll set him on fire.’ This is f—ed up.”