In June 2024, a single act of rage turned deadly and irreversible.

After a heated argument with his girlfriend, Anthony Green made a choice that would devastate multiple lives. Fueled by anger, he deliberately set a fire inside a home where Lorraine Green and others were still inside. Then, chillingly, he walked away — even stopping to buy cigarettes as flames began to consume the building.

The fire was intended as punishment. Lorraine, who wore a prosthetic leg, was the target of his fury.

But fate chose another victim.

In a back room, asleep and unaware, Shaquoiya Allison, 34, inhaled the smoke that would take her life. She never had a chance to run. Never heard the warning signs. She died not because she was involved — but because she was there.

Prosecutors later described Green’s actions as diabolical. The jury agreed. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The ruling brought accountability, but it could not undo the loss. A family was left grieving a daughter taken in her sleep. A community was left reckoning with how quickly anger can become fatal.

This was not an accident.
Not a mistake.
It was a choice.

And one life — innocent, sleeping, undeserving — paid the price forever.