Overview
- Surveillance footage released by Oklahoma City police shows a man igniting and throwing an incendiary device at a wheelchair user outside police headquarters, briefly engulfing the victim in flames.
- Officers and a bystander pulled the victim from the fire and Oklahoma City Fire Department medics treated the person for minor injuries who is expected to recover.
- A nearby detective and other officers detained the suspect on the spot and he was later identified in detention records as 38-year-old Alexander Emery.
- Emery has been charged with multiple felonies, including arson, assault with intent to kill, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, according to police and the county detention database.
- Police have not publicly confirmed a motive and one outlet’s report that the suspect admitted the attack was random remains uncorroborated by other official sources.