The man allegedly held the door shut while someone inside the burning duplex was trying to get out and shouted „You’re going to die.“
A man in North Carolina is accused of setting a duplex on fire and trying to kill someone inside the building, holding the door shut while someone was trying to get out. The man, Jason Ray Weeks,48, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree arson, after he allegedly set fire to the building in Thomasville, North Carolina, according to news station WGHP. When firefighters responded to the duplex around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, both units were on fire. A man who had been inside the burning building told law enforcement officials that he initially couldn’t get out because Weeks was holding the door shut, and shouting „You’re going to die,“ the news station reported, citing police.
