Police in Raleigh, North Carolina Saturday afternoon shot and killed a man who was attempting to set cars on fire in a shopping center parking lot after he started lobbing Molotov cocktails at their patrol cars, the Associated Press reports.
The confrontation began when an officer saw the man attempting to set fire to cars parked near a police station. As backup arrived, the officers tried to get the individual to talk, he threw two more devices at police cars, nearly hitting an officer, at which time, officers opened fire.
The officers dragged the wounded man away from the two burning vehicles and administered first aid, but the man died later at a hospital.