A 28-year-old man could be charged with attempted murder after lighting his girlfriend on fire.

The man, who has not been named, called his 25-year-old girlfriend while she was at work at Tim Hortons on Niagara Street in the city of Tonawanda. He asked her to meet him outside in the garbage corral.

When she met him, “he took this flammable liquid in some kind of plastic container, doused her with gasoline down the front and, with a lighter, lit her on fire,” said Tonawanda Police Captain Fredric Foels. “The fumes carried over onto him and he was caught on fire also.”

Both people were taken to a burn unit for treatment. The woman, identified by her family as Jessica Cameron, was badly burned down her front and on her hands, Foels said.  

The couple have three young children; they're staying with a relative. 

Donations for Cameron and and her children are being accepted at the Tonawanda Fire Department. 

People outside the Tim Hortons late Monday were still trying to process what they witnessed Monday afternoon.

"I watched them wheel her away on a stretcher into an ambulance, said Kareena Wages, who works at a nearby Subway restaurant. "I couldn't tell if she was black or white, I couldn't tell if she had hair or not because she didn't have any hair." 

Wages added, "She had no clothes on, and that's when I found out that it was a person that I was watching and smelling burn."