An “obsessed stalker” torched seven cars in an apparent arson targeting a #cosplayer in the parking lot of a hotel where Anime Los Angeles attendees had been staying over the weekend. The incident took place early Sunday morning just before 2am. CCTV footage from the Azure Hotel & Suites in Ontario, California, “showed a man walk up to the main vehicle, pour two cans of gasoline all over it and then [flick] a match on it,” as reported by the hotel manager.
Cosplayer Julia Moreno Jenkins said that her vehicle was “targeted and set on fire by an obsessed stalker.” The fire then spread to nearby cars and the hotel was evacuated as a precaution. The damaged cars were partially melted and charred from the intense heat.
The suspect, which Jenkins said is known to her, has been arrested after she and her husband were able to identify him from the hotel’s CCTV footage.
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