The man left a threatening note warning of future attacks and that he didn’t want the Democratic party to influence the city or state, authorities said.
A Texas man has been charged with arson and possession of a prohibited weapon after he reportedly set a fire inside the Democratic Travis County Party Headquarters in Austin, police said. Austin Fire Department arson investigator, Captain Jeffrey Dean, said that 30-year-old Ryan Faircloth on Wednesday reportedly threw a Molotov cocktail device inside the building, CNN reported. Investigators believe that Faircloth intentionally set fire to the building for political reasons. « I think it was one of those things, you know, that this person was not happy with the current political climate, he blamed this office and who they represent for a lot of the issues that he saw as problems with the country and for that reason this was an intentional act, » Deane said. He added that Faircloth was « forthcoming » and admitted that he lit the building for those reasons. Authorities said that the fire caused slight damage to the building and that no staff members were inside at the time.
