A Sacramento woman and her friends were inches away from being lit on fire during a visit to a Boba Tea shop in Berkeley.
According to the Berkeley Police Department, around 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14, officers were called to the 2500 block of Durant Avenue after receiving multiple calls of a man trying to light people on fire. Before police arrived, the suspect, Brandon McGlone, 46, of Berkeley, told two men sitting outside of Artichoke Basille’s Pizza that he was going to light them on fire. McGlone knocked the food off their table and when the two men started to walk away, McGlone sprayed them with WD-40, a flammable, household chemical.
McGlone then walked towards the nearby Feng Cha Teahouse, where he sprayed and set fire to two people's hair. Other customers quickly helped the two extinguish the fire.