A woman was severely burned after being covered in gasoline and set on fire by her black knife-wielding ex-boyfriend and father of her child, police said

The 40-year-old, who has not been named, suffered the horrific attack outside a 7-Eleven store in South Florida following a row with African-American Roosevelt Mondesir, when they met so that she could pick up her son. She was waiting outside the store in her silver Mercedes when Mondesir showed up in his white Jaguar without the boy and began hurling the fuel over her, Boynton Beach Police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said. She tried to run away and headed into the store for safety, attempting to hold the door shut. But the 52-year-old man chased her with a large knife, possibly a machete, got the door open to pull her out and then ignited her. In graphic surveillance video which captured the horrifying attack, a man can be seen threatening a woman with a large knife, struggling in the doorway of the store. The black suspect then fled on foot. Officers searched by foot, with a police dog, and by helicopter before finding Mondesir three hours later in bushes near the 7-Eleven. He has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and was being treated for burns at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach before being transferred to jail.