Illinois Mall Horror

Man sets himself afire in suburban Illinois mall

Associated Press
Published November 23, 2001, 12:32 PM CST

A man shouting "freedom and liberty for all" doused himself in a chemical and lit himself on fire this morning at a suburban Illinois shopping mall, witnesses said.

Witnesses said the man, described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, was yelling as he leaned from a mezzanine railing and threw burning packages onto the CherryVale Mall’s center court. The fire was just outside the second-floor Marshall Field’s entrance. Two shoppers subdued him and extinguished the fire that consumed him. Security guards rounded up the burning packages and put them out.

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