Authorities in Mississippi’s capital city are on the hunt for a suspected arsonist who set several fires early Tuesday morning on and near the campus of Jackson State University, a historically Black public college.
News outlets reported at least seven overnight fires were confirmed by officials. At least two of the buildings set ablaze were churches. Another one of the fires broke out on Jackson State University’s baseball field.
No injuries were reported. Authorities are searching for one suspect, according to Armon and the Jackson Police Department. They did not provide the person’s name or a suspected motivation behind the fires. Llyod Caston, 73, an elder at Epiphany, was awoken around 4:00 a.m. by a call from a family member who lives in the church’s neighborhood. Alerted to the fire, he left his home and arrived at the church around 4:30 a.m. to find the building “fully enflamed.”The fire department was on the scene attempting to put out the fire when Caston arrived. He stayed about an hour and left before the fire had been extinguished. “There wasn’t nothing we could do but sit and watch,” Caston said. “That was it.
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