By Associated Press - Friday, August 7, 2020

PINE RIDGE, S.C. (AP) - Police are looking for the man who set a police car on fire in a parking lot of a small town South Carolina police station.

Surveillance video shows the man run up to the marked car around 9 p.m. July 31 in Pine Ridge and spend 20 seconds pouring liquid from what looks like a red gas can on the driver’s door.

The man flicks a lighter, the car immediately begins burning and he runs away, according to the video released by the State Law Enforcement Division.



Agents said the man drove away from the fire in the small Lexington County town in a silver, four-door sedan.

The car burned for 12 minutes until firefighters arrived and was destroyed, according to the video.

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