Two house fires in Clay County are being investigated as arson after county officials say they found evidence of a targeted attack.
The two homes are several miles away from each other in the Clay Hill area outside Middleburg — one on Sharon Lane and the other on Conifer Circle — andThere was no one living at either of the newly-built houses at the time. In fact, they were actually on the market to be sold when these fires were started.
People living nearby captured a photo of one of the messages as it was being seized by law enforcement as evidence. The xenophobic message says “hands off our lands — Latinos are not welcome” followed by an expletive and a swastica, a symbol of white supremacy. An “explosion” is how one neighbor described what happened at the other house. She asked to not be identified.
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