Door of woman's NYCHA apartment burned from bottom up; FDNY investigating

Thursday, December 19, 2019
KIPS BAY, Manhattan (WABC) -- The FDNY is investigating after the door of a woman's apartment was burned from the bottom up.

Shetia Harris' floor at the Straus Houses in Kips Bay was completely burned, as well as the floor in front of it.
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"I am scared to stay here? What's going on? I feel like it was a bit of retaliation," says Harris.

Harris and her family, including three-year-old Sanaje, were home Thursday when they heard a commotion in the hall.

"When I seen her door, I got weak - her baby was here," said Harris' mother, Lilly McLaurin.
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The FDNY is investigating the incident as arson, but no one has been arrested. The family hopes that changes. A woman in the hall says she saw the man who did it.

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