Regina police continue investigation into church arson
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Police are continuing to investigate an arson incident that damaged a church in downtown Regina late last week.
Police are continuing to investigate an arson incident that damaged a church in downtown Regina late last week.
Firefighters were originally called to Blessed Sacrament Parish at around 3:40 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9.
Crews were able to quickly extinguish a fire affecting the back door of the church. Fire investigators were called in and later determined the blaze was in fact the result of arson.
“Fire investigators reached out to our arson investigators on Friday morning, as they would in any other suspected arson case,” Regina Police Service (RPS) Communications Director Lindsey Hoemsen explained.
“From that point, arson investigators worked to canvas the area, worked with the church itself to see what, if any, surveillance might be available.”
Security camera footage at the site of the fire was shared to social media over the weekend by the parish’s priest.
In the video, a masked individual can be seen pouring the contents of a jerry can all over the church’s back door and then lighting the contents before fleeing the area.
