NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — A local mother said that she had to throw her children from a roof to escape a house fire that police say was intentionally set.
“I don’t remember thinking anything, except go!” Jasmine Bell told Channel 11.
Jasmine Bell threw her children off her porch roof as her New Kensington home went up in flames on March 29.
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“He just jumped down, and he said, ‘Throw the kids,’ and I just started launching kids off the roof,” she said.
Her partner is on the ground and you can see him catch their son.
“Jeris jumps down and he tells me to throw the kids. I’m like, ‘Throw the kids?’ Yes, throw the kids! So I picked the kids up, and said, ‘I love you, I have to throw you,’ and I tossed them, and he’s catching kids,” she added.
Then, Jasmine jumps, and you can see the aftermath when she tries to roll to safety after she landed on her leg and broke it in five places.
She now needs a scooter to get around.
“I feel like if I would have hesitated, I probably wouldn’t have jumped. Or I would have hurt myself worse,” Bell said.
Days later, Jasmine and her family learned someone set their house on fire, and that person, according to police, is Anthony Mohamed, her partner’s stepbrother.
She told us that the two had an argument a week earlier. On Monday, detectives are searching for him while Jasmine and her family recover physically and emotionally.
“You tried to kill my children. You tried to take everything I have in this world from me. I hope that one day, when you’re sitting there rotting in your cell, that you realize that you did have something to lose,” she said.
Jasmine and her family are living with her mom, and lost everything in the fire.
There’s a GoFundMe to help her family rebuild. Click here if you would like to donate.
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