TAMPA, Fla. (CBS Tampa) Local authorities responding to distress calls arrived to a house in flames, the fire fully engulfing 5703 S MacDill Ave. as Kent Perusse, 48, allegedly resigned himself to watching it burn while he sat across the street on his neighbors lawn.
He said, I did it, according to reports, and he allegedly did it for love a love now over.
He told police he started the fire with gasoline because he didnt want his mother, wife or daughter to move in.
Minutes earlier, witnesses told police Perusse calmly walked down his steps in socks and shorts, with a soot-smeared face and third-degree burns on his lower legs.
Perusse also told police that he left his pit bull inside where it burned in his storage room.
He has been charged with first-degree arson and animal cruelty.
Police: Tampa Man Burns House So Mother, Wife Won’t Move In « CBS Tampa
What a Prick.