“Arson investigators with the Austin Fire Department arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of intentionally setting fire to an Austin synagogue on Halloween night. Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, is suspected of using an accelerant near the sanctuary doors of Congregation Beth Israel to ignite the flames, causing an estimated $25,000 in damage, according to AFD. An arrest affidavit for Sechriest said surveillance video showed a dark-colored Jeep enter the north parking lot around 9 p.m. the night of the fire. The driver, described as a ‘tall thin white male with dark hair’ got out of the car carrying what seemed to be a heavy green jug. They were able to capture the Jeep’s plate number from the footage and track down the SUV’s owner. While the Jeep wasn’t registered to Sechriest, he lived with the person who it was registered to, and investigators found that Sechriest fit the description of the suspect seen in surveillance videos” KXAN reports on what apparently was passes as regular old Halloween mischief in MAGA world these days.
Where normal kids would be like “Hey let’s go egg Old Man Sullivan’s house” or “What if we toilet papered the trees outside the police station? That’d definitely piss them off, lol” it’s “Dude, wouldn’t it be a hilarious prank if we burned down the Jew church? Let’s go do it! I’ll drive!”