{"id":87717,"date":"2025-08-22T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87717\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:01:07","slug":"woman-set-on-fire-while-sleeping-in-st-catharines-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87717\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman set on fire while sleeping in St. Catharines: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people have been arrested, and a third suspect is wanted after a woman was set on fire while she was sleeping inside her apartment in St. Catharines over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niagara police received an \u201cassist ambulance\u201d call at 11 p.m. on Aug. 16 in the Vine and Scott Streets area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When officers arrived, they discovered a female victim suffering from burn injuries to her upper body and face, police said. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators have since determined and alleged that three suspects known to the victim deliberately targeted her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspects entered her apartment and used an accelerant to light her on fire while she slept,\u201d police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/en\/news\/nrps-detectives-arrest-two-suspects-one-wanted-in-attempted-murder-investigation-st-catharines.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/en\/news\/nrps-detectives-arrest-two-suspects-one-wanted-in-attempted-murder-investigation-st-catharines.aspx\">said in a news release on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspects were identified, and two of them, 25-year-old Chassidy Archer and 30-year-old Moises Medeiros, were arrested on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both are facing charges of attempted murder and break enter and commit an indictable offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Medeiros has also been charged with carrying a concealed weapon and two counts of failure to comply with a probation order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are still looking for the third suspect, 37-year-old Rebecca Daigneault. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RPCNLNRCRJDMLELVJNINKWSLPQ.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Rebecca Daigneault Rebecca Daigneault is wanted for attempted murder. (Niagara Regional Police) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She is wanted for attempted murder, break enter and commit an indictable offence, and failure to comply with a probation order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The motive is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing and police are asking anyone with information about Daigneault\u2019s whereabouts or the incident to contact them at 905-688-4111, dial option 3, extension 1009610.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested, and a third suspect is wanted after a woman was set on fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-87717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}