“she had been left in "absolute fear" and the sounds of the flames could be heard from inside her home.

“I didn’t see the scene, thank God, but I saw the detectives and confirmed my worst nightmare.

“We could hear all the banging and the flames going up,

“The next thing I know the police were knocking on my door and we had to go.

“When we were in our living room, and we thought that another sporadic rainstorm hit Chicago, so we go outside in the windows, next thing you know, we just hear like lights everywhere

“Let me say this: If it was hand-to-hand and more people were getting killed, people would be banging the doors down,

“I envision what took place in that house that night, and I feel like he is a demon. I feel like he is… the devil himself

“how terrible it felt to walk around Times Square in the aftermath of September 11 and see everything, and everyone felt so. . . patriotic.