Arson Suspected in Several Fires Set in Mississippi's Capital City on Election Day
Melted siding, burned insulation, charred wooden beams and ashes of old hymnals are all that remain at Epiphany Lutheran Church near midtown Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. 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 university. Renovations to the church's interior were completed earlier this year.
Officials started to receive calls about several fires starting around 2:45 a.m. Officials said six of the seven fires were put out by 6 a.m. Epiphany church burned for more than four hours before the fire was extinguished. 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.”
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