A Southern California man accused of setting fire to the cardboard a homeless man was sleeping under has been charged with attempted murder.
Richard Smallets, 32, was arrested on Sept. 12, the same day that the fire was set on cardboard under which the victim was sleeping, police said in a statement.Richard Smallets, 32, was arrested Sept. 12, the same day a fire was set near a man sleeping on a sidewalk in Glendale,The homeless man awoke to find the cardboard boxes he was sleeping under were on fire, police said.
Police were called to the scene around 1:22 a.m. that morning. Officials did not say if the homeless man suffered any injuries. Smallets was arrested on an arson charge, and on Sept. 13, he was charged with attempted murder by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, police said. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Glendale is a city north of downtown Los Angeles. A homeless count the city conducted in January found 243 homeless in the city of about 191,000 residents, which was down by 17 people from the 2018 count,Like in the Los Angeles County area and other parts of the country, reasons cited for the homeless situation were high rents and income that does not match rent increases, according to the report. Other factors cited were job loss or unexpected illness.
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