Holden Matthews, 21, the son of Louisiana Deputy Roy Matthews of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office, was arrested and charged with three counts of simple arson over a string of suspicious local fires at three historically black local churches.
A GoFundMe page has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the reconstruction of three historically-black churches in Louisiana that were recently burned down in a string of suspected hate crime incidents.
The first fire broke out at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre on March 26. A second fire erupted a week later, on April 2, at Greater Union Baptist Church. Despite rigorous efforts by firefighters to combat the blaze, the building was unable to be salvaged. The unusual circumstances surrounding the fire led Greater Union’s pastor Harry Richard to speculate that foul play could have been involved.
“There is clearly something happening in this community,” Browning said last Thursday, the same day the fundraising campaign was launched. The campaign began trending on GoFundMe this week after the devastating Monday fire that severely damaged France's historic Notre Dame Cathedral drew attention to recent church fires across the U.S.
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