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A protester who advocated for peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown has been charged with setting fire to a convenience store in a neighbouring suburb.
A St Louis County jail official said 19-year-old Joshua Williams was being held on Saturday on $30,000 bond on charges that included arson.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that media outlets and store surveillance captured images of a man trying to set a pile of wood on fire early on Wednesday outside a QuikTrip in Berkeley. Charges filed on Saturday said Williams had confessed in a videotaped interview. More Strange News