Texas teen charged with allegedly setting Austin synagogue on fire
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An 18-year-old Texas teen was charged with intentionally setting an Austin, Texas, synagogue fire.
A Texas teen has been charged with allegedly setting an Austin, Texas, synagogue ablaze on Halloween.
Prosecutors allege that Franklin Barrett Sechriest, an 18-year-old student at Texas State University, intentionally lit a fire at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on the night of Oct. 31, and upon searching his Jeep Cherokee, agents recovered ingredients for Molotov cocktails, according to the complaint and affidavit, which were filed on Friday.
"Kill them all," reads a propaganda-style sticker with swastikas on it, which was also allegedly found in his car along with two other hateful stickers. FBI agents also found a calendar with an anti-Black racist epithet written on it in his home, the charging documents allege.
Days before he allegedly set the fire, Sechriest allegedly cased the child development center at the house of worship, according to court documents.
