Woman Set On Fire In UWS Building Has Died, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A woman who was set on fire by her boyfriend in his Upper West Side apartment was pronounced dead months after the attack, police said.

Alicia Avery, 33, died last week from injuries suffered during the a June 12 attack in a public housing building on the corner of Columbus Avenue and West 100th Street, police said. The attack was pronounced a homicide following her death, police said.

Avery's boyfriend, 26-year-old Larry McGloster, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault, arson and criminal possession of a weapon in June. McGloster pleaded not guilty in June and is being held without bail, according to court records.

McGloster beat up Avery in the hallway of a Frederick Douglass Houses building and doused her with an unknown substance around noon on June 12, police said. After setting the woman on fire, McGloster fled the apartment building, police said.

McGloster makes his next court appearance in October, according to court records.

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