A North Memphis woman has been charged with aggravated arson for supposedly employing a homemade incendiary device to set her neighbor's porch ablaze. The incident, which underscores our communities' often unseen but intense fractures, occurred late Sunday night on Kney Street.
Memphis Police reported that at around 10:15 p.m., they answered a distress call concerning a fire. The resident, who had been retrieving his tablet from his car, witnessed his neighbor, identified as 25-year-old Felicia Davis, throw what appeared to be a flaming Sprite bottle over his front yard gate, sparking the fire on his porch. "During that time, the victim’s entire porch caught on fire," reported WREG.
Upon the arrival of fire investigators, a plastic bottle believed to have served as a Molotov cocktail was found on the scene, along with broken glass and a burned backpack containing tools. The tangible aftermath of this attack presented a stark testament to the event's severity. FOX13 Memphis noted that the fire investigator determined the blaze was caused by the Molotov cocktail.
Davis was taken into custody without providing a statement and is currently being held on a $105,000 bond as she waited for her court appearance, which was due yesterday morning. Action News 5 gleaned from a police report that the neighbor could subdue the fire using a hose connected to his house before the firefighters arrived.
