“That’s what he said, ‘Imma blow this b—h up,’” Morris said. Police arrived around 3:30 a.m., where they found the home in flames inside the home was 56-year-old Morris and her 90-year-old grandmother.

Despite the noticeable smell of gasoline and the sight of flames coming from inside the home, Morris says police refused to come inside to assist her and her grandmother to safety. Instead police urged Morris to climb from a second-story window. Once she got out of the home she asked police to help her grandmother.

“I said my grandmama in there, she’s 90-year-old, go get her. They said, ‘We can’t go in there, he’s got a gun.’” Morris ran into the home and pulled her grandmother to the front door.

“When I got to the front door I just came out enough so I can breathe and so she could breathe, I had her head out but her body was still in the door, the cops would not come up there to help me,” Morris said. Two passersby helped her pull the elderly woman. A witnessing neighbor agreed with Morris’ account of the incident.

However, the police account of the incident differs claiming to have arrived at the home and encountered the 56-year-old boyfriend, who pointed a gun at them. A spokesperson for the department told the news station two officers entered the home and removed Morris and grandmother from the burning home. The boyfriend’s body was found inside the home and a cause of death has not yet been determined.

Morris says she is grateful to be alive and only having to receive minor treatment for her injuries. “I appreciate [police] every time they come out and I still respect the cops, because it ain’t all them, but whoever was in charge definitely didn’t handle it right,” Morris said.