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The suspect is believed to have tried to set fire to her mother's hair with deodorant spray, per the publication.
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Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
A day before a shooter killed four people and set fire to a church in Michigan, students at a football game in Colorado chanted vulgar anti-Mormon slurs against the same religious organization.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Forced to flee to an Albanian refugee camp with his family at the age of twelve after Serbian troops set fire to his village during the Kosovo War, Halilaj began making art at the suggestion of a psychologist at the camp as a way of reckoning with the trauma.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Oct. 2025
Sanford also intentionally set fire to the church using an accelerant — likely gasoline, officials said — causing the building to erupt in flames.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
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Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
A day before a shooter killed four people and set fire to a church in Michigan, students at a football game in Colorado chanted vulgar anti-Mormon slurs against the same religious organization.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Forced to flee to an Albanian refugee camp with his family at the age of twelve after Serbian troops set fire to his village during the Kosovo War, Halilaj began making art at the suggestion of a psychologist at the camp as a way of reckoning with the trauma.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Oct. 2025
Sanford also intentionally set fire to the church using an accelerant — likely gasoline, officials said — causing the building to erupt in flames.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Set fire to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20fire%20to. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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