Digital editorial staff Noticias Cuatro 06/10/2024 5:05 p.m.
This is how the agents experienced the explosion of the house
The house burst just as the agents were going to enter to arrest its owner for a search warrant
James Yoo, the owner, had fired a dozen flares at a school
The burst originated in the basement, due to the combination of gasoline with an ignition source
Last December there was an impressive burst that produced in a housing in arlington (Virginia). As reported by Álvaro Berro in Noticias Cuatro, the house burst just as the agents were going to enter to arrest its owner. The Arlington Police have published the images of the personal cameras that the officers carried in this operation. Arlington County Police responded to a home to execute a search warrant.
Through a megaphone, they warned the owner to get away from the door. They went to look for him at his home because he had been shooting with a flare gun in a college. The agents were received with shots from inside the house, so they used a vehicle with a ram to knock down the door and gain entry. Just as they were about to go inside, the house flew into the air.
The debris burst the window of a police vehicle, as the explosion had enormous force. From the personal camera of an agent You can see the power that the explosion registered. The burst originated in the basement, due to the combination of gasoline with an ignition source. The body of the 56-year-old owner, James Yooappeared among the rubble of the house.
A few days after the explosion, neighbors began to assess the damage
According to Telemundo Washington DC, a few days after the explosion the neighbors began to assess the damage and informed the media strange behaviour of the owner. Almost a dozen houses were damaged to such an extent that the residents of the homes adjacent to the destroyed one had to find another place to stay.
Tracy and David Mitchell lived right in front of the house and had to fill some bags with the essentials to go to a hotel. David Mitchell said: “You just have to take what you think you need.” He added that they considered themselves lucky, since the family who lived on the other side of the damaged house was not so lucky. David Mitchell said: “Given what the Smith family is going through, we have it easy. We have to clean things up. They have nothing to clean. They have nothing”.
Unusual packages arrived at the house in the months before the explosion
Neighborhood residents explained that they saw unusual packages arriving at James Yoo’s house during the months before the explosion. Some claim they saw apocalyptic magazines and something similar to huge cans with lighter fluid. The police went to his house after firing a dozen flares towards a school, and once the officers arrived, he met them with gunshots.
Neighbors also said that they barely interacted with James Yoo. They commented that he had covered the windows of his part of the duplex with foil or other similar material. The FBI stated that they were aware of James Yoo’s activity in social networkssince he had several conspiracy theories.
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