Rep. Rush's niece victim of alleged arson
By Christina Wilkie
Posted: 08/19/09 04:57 PM [ET]
A car belonging to Rep. Bobby Rush's (D-Ill.) niece was doused with an accelerant and set on fire in Lansing, Ill., on Tuesday.
According to NBC's Chicago affiliate, 28-year-old Kaneisha Leira, the daughter of Rush's brother Marlon Rush, had just gotten into her Lexus sedan when "a man with a match" approached the car and threw it at the vehicle.
The driver, unaware that accelerant had already been poured around the car, did not exit the vehicle quickly enough, and suffered minor burns.
Police arrived to discover a Lexus engulfed in flames. They also found aluminum cans of accelerant around the vehicle.
Leira refused to go to the hospital and was treated on site. A neighbor observed Leira leaving the scene in a police vehicle.
A source told The Hill that it appeared to be a "domestic" incident unrelated to the congressman, but police are still investigating.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Hill: Bobby Rush's Niece a possible domestic...
Just because in my last posting about it, I wanted to set the record straight that this may not be what it appeared to me at first (another example of someone threatening Congressmen and their families over Health Care). The Hill provided a few more details, but not much more past what we had this morning.
