second acid attack in under a week has left another woman recovering from severe second degree burns on her face and chest. The attack, which occurred in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday, is suspected to be a copycat crime of a similar attack earlier last week.
Derri Velarde, 41, told KPNX T-V in Arizona that she was in an apartment complex parking lot when an unidentified woman flung liquid into her face and ran off.
"I saw... a woman, you know, walking up, with what looked like a drink of water in her hand," Velarde said. "It immediately just started to burn, I was on fire."
Mesa police combed the area for the suspect and do not feel that this was a random act of violence. Many now believe that this is a copycat crime of Monday's incident in Washington.
On the Monday prior to the attack on Velarde, 28-year-old Bethany Storro of was attacked by a complete stranger outside of a coffee shop in Vancouver, Wash.
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