New York man pleads guilty to killing wife by setting her on fire
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Antonio Bargallo, 69, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a gruesome murder.
The man who authorities said poured gasoline on his wife, set her on fire and walked to a police station to turn himself in last March pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the gruesome murder.
Antonio Bargallo, 69, entered the plea as part of a deal that will sentence him to 21 years to life in prison, the Schenectady County District Attorney's office said.
Prosecutors called Bargallo's attack on Elizabeth Gonzales, his wife, incomprehensible.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Maria Suero, a neighbor, told the Albany Times Union that on March 4 she heard a woman screaming her name and saw Gonzales engulfed in flames. Suero said her daughter tried to douse the flames. She told the paper, “I really tried to save her; I really did.”
Gonzales, 48, who worked for two decades as a teacher's aide in the Schenectady city schools, was airlifted to a hospital and died the next day from smoke inhalation and burns to more than 50 percent of her body. Gonzales had two grown sons.
Bargallo will be sentenced Sept. 20.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Associated Press contributed to this report