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| Suspect confesses in Queens firebombings | |
| 2012-01-05 | |
| A man tossed crude firebombs at an Islamic cultural center in part because he wasn't allowed to use its bathrooms and targeted four other sites in Queens on New Year's Day because of personal grievances, an official said Tuesday. Police said that Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, of Guyanese descent, was arrested Tuesday after he was tracked through a stolen car with out-of-state license plates believed to be at the scene of at least two of the attacks Sunday evening on a convenience store, three houses and the cultural center. Lengend, who resides in Jamaica, had vowed to take revenge following his shoplifting arrest last Tuesday. Police commissioner Ray Kelly said, "When they were pushing him out of the store, he said words to the effect of, 'We're going to get even, we're going to get back at you." A deli was the first of four Queens targets hit by the man, who also is suspected of striking at an Islamic center, a Hindu temple inside a home and a Jamaica home. Kelly said, "Four of the five attacks, the Starbucks Frappucino bottles were used. Our detectives believe that the same individual is responsible for all of these incidents." Police had aired a security video from the Hindu temple that showed Lengend apparently throwing a lit Molotov cocktail over the fence. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center, but none of the worshipers inside were injured. Iman Maan Al-Sahlani said he was grateful for the NYPD's efforts in finding the culprit. He said, "We have to be shoulder to shoulder. We have to protect our country, we have to protect our society and the freedom that God gives us."
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