{"id":1730684,"date":"2022-11-08T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730684"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:48:06","slug":"police-arrest-man-accused-of-setting-election-day-fires-at-7-locations-including-2-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-arrest-man-accused-of-setting-election-day-fires-at-7-locations-including-2-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Man Accused Of Setting Election Day Fires At 7 Locations, Including 2 Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-arrest-man-accused-of-setting-election-day-fires-at-7-locations-including-2-churches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An alleged arsonist has been arrested after reportedly setting seven fires on Election Day, including at two churches, in Jackson, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Devin McLaurin, 23, was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the fires, according to the Jackson Police Department, along with the help of Hinds County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been here for 30 years. This is a major occurrence,\u201d Patrick Armon, assistant fire chief for the Jackson Fire Department,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapt.com\/article\/breaking-news-arsonist-sets-multiple-fires-across-jackson-jfd-confirms\/41896284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told WAPT-TV<\/a>. \u201cThis is not something we normally go to. We have about a third of our department on sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAUGHT: Hinds County Deputies were able to detain arson suspect, Delvin McLaurin. He is transferred to The Jackson Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Picture from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyreeSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TyreeSheriff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tApxMdeq6c\">pic.twitter.com\/tApxMdeq6c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gracyn Gordon (@gracynonair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gracynonair\/status\/1590110814404771841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calls were received beginning around 2:45 a.m. Central Time on Tuesday morning concerning the fires. All flames were extinguished by 6 a.m. with the exception of Epiphany Lutheran Church, a historic location that burned for nearly four hours. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ervin Ricks, communications director for Greater Bethlehem, the other church damaged by fire, said it appeared someone entered the church building and set the fire from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually broke into the church and got in and started the fire that way,\u201d Ricks told WAPT-TV.<\/p>\n<p>One of the fires occurred at the Jackson State University baseball field. It is being investigated by the state\u2019s Fire Marshalls since it is state-owned property, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/08\/arsonist-sets-seven-fires-destroys-church-in-jackson-mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>The other four locations included a house on Pascagoula Street, a gas station on Terry Road, a structure at Central Street and Dalton, and a structure at Terry and Cherry Streets, the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-316 p Component-p-0-2-306\">Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) addressed the fires during a Tuesday city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-316 p Component-p-0-2-306\">\u201cWe don\u2019t yet know who or why, but I want to thank the firefighters because they were able to respond to that and still get back to the stations, so that people could set up for voting precincts,\u201d Lumumba <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/education-mississippi-jackson-arson-6d2ad5abcaea272d4aaa3162a07fc579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>, according to the Associated Press. The mayor\u2019s comments came before McLaurin\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizens are outraged that there is a suspected arsonist in our midst,\u201d Ward 5 Councilman Vernon Hartley, who represents the areas near where the fires occurred, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/2022\/11\/08\/overnight-fires-cause-damages-on-voting-day\/69629347007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Mississippi Clarion Ledger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage all communities in the greater Jackson area to acknowledge that an action like this is not an action against one community. It affects us all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>No polling locations were reportedly impacted due to the fires.<\/p>\n<p>The fires were reported as tensions run high with American voters headed to the ballot box during the midterm elections. Republicans are expected to win a majority in the House, while the 50-50 Senate may also tip toward the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In Mississippi, four congressional seats are at stake. More than 1.9 million active voters were listed in the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2022\/11\/01\/november-2022-election-key-races-polling-places-voting-rules-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> NBC News. No senators are up for re-election in Mississippi and the state\u2019s governor\u2019s race is not until 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged arsonist has been arrested after reportedly setting seven fires on Election Day, including at two churches, in Jackson, Mississippi. Devin McLaurin, 23, was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the fires, according to the Jackson Police Department, along with the help of Hinds County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies. \u201cI\u2019ve been here for 30 years. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1730687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}