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  • Arsonist Pleads Guilty to Torching Three Black Churches to ‘Raise His Profile as a Black Metal Musician,’ Feds Say

    02/15/2020 6:03:17 PM PST · by marshmallow · 18 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 2/11/20 | Meagan Flynn
    The three Louisiana churches went up in flames in a span of 10 days, each doused in gasoline and torched with oily shop rags in the middle of the night. Each Baptist congregation was predominantly black, causing church leaders to fear that white supremacists may target their parish next. But as the fears swirled, the arsonist, 22-year-old Holden Matthews, was busy planning his next album cover, according to text messages obtained by prosecutors He burned down the three churches in St. Landry Parish, federal prosecutors said Monday, because he wanted “to raise his profile as a ‘Black Metal’ musician.” Matthews,...
  • Multiple sources: One in custody in church fires

    04/11/2019 9:59:41 AM PDT · by OddLane · 22 replies
    KATC ^ | 4/10/19 | KATC News
    KATC has confirmed with multiple law enforcement sources that one person is in custody in the recent church fires in St. Landry Parish. Sources confirm the suspect in the church arsons is Holden Matthews, 21. He is the son of a St. Landry Parish Deputy. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz tells KATC that, despite rumors, Matthews’ father did not turn his son in to deputies. Matthews was booked at around 5:30 this evening into the St. Landry Parish jail. We’re told that the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office will be holding a press conference tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Governor...