Chicago Police search for arsonist who left flaming item at a person's apartment door

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Frightening video obtained by CBS 2 shows an arsonist in action on South Shore.

As CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reported Monday, the video shows someone carrying flames down the hallway and leaving them by someone's apartment door. At least five units in a couple of neighboring apartment buildings were heavily damaged by the fire that resulted -- their windows remained boarded up Monday.

Sources said the man is responsible for setting four fires in one of the apartment buildings, and the flames spread to the neighboring building on the 6800 block of South Clyde Avenue in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. The fires were set between Feb. 27 and March 5.Singleton lives near the building where the fires were set. He said he was home when one of the arsons took place.

"You heard the bam of the glass crack, then about 20 minutes later, the smoke started coming in on the other side of the units," Singleton said.

 

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