Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Omar Sheeree Sims, 49, was arrested yesterday after allegedly trying to pour bleach on a woman and then spraying her with roach spray and trying to light her on fire, then threatening a 13-year-old girl with a knife and trying to escape custody after he was arrested.
The responding Gainesville Police Department officer reported that at about 6:25 p.m. on May 2, Sims got into an argument with the woman because he was supposed to be moving out of her apartment at Carver Gardens Apartments (1101 SE 15th Street); the woman said Sims picked up a bottle of bleach and tried to pour it on her, but she wrestled the bleach from him. She said he then went into the kitchen, picked up some roach spray, took a cigarette lighter from his pocket, sprayed her with the roach spray, and tried to light her on fire. After that, she said, he threw the roach spray down and jumped on her, hit her, and choked her. She said he was extremely intoxicated and fell to the ground after he was unsuccessful in choking her…