Asheville (NC) Homeless Man Set on Fire has Died

August 22, 2019
Fire Engineering Staff

A homeless man set on fire over the weekend in East Asheville has died, reports 13 WLOS.

 

Authorities say 58-year-old Larry Donnell Alston was set on fire just before 1 a.m. Sunday morning. Alston was transported to the Wake Forest Baptist Health Burn Center in Winston-Salem.

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