11-Year-Old Boy Charged With Setting Fires in Md. Wal-Mart

 

BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- Baltimore County Police say an 11-year-old Catonsville boy set small fires inside the Arbutus Wal-Mart Supercenter store Tuesday morning.

Firefighters and police responded to the store in the Lansdowne Crossing shopping center in Arbutus at 11:08 a.m. Tuesday, after the business was evacuated when multiple small fires were set in different areas of the store.

Police said the fires were extinguished by employees.

One Wal-Mart worker was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor smoke inhalation.

County police asked for help identifying a potential witness, posting a photo of a woman taken from store surveillance cameras to the media.

The boy was charged with attempted first-degree arson, first-degree malicious burning, reckless endangerment and second-degree malicious burning, according to police.

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