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A Texan According to federal prosecutors, he was sentenced to six years in connection with the 2023 arson attack on a church in Washington.
Natasha Marie O’Del, 38, was sentenced on Thursday to three crimes for arson of Lutheran Church in Seattle Snohomish County, WashingtonThe US Prosecutor’s Office in Western District has announced.
O’Dell pleaded guilty earlier this year in arson, harm to religious property and obstacles in the free implementation of religious beliefs.
“This offense was devastating and dangerous,” US Demol Jamal Whitehead said at a hearing. “Ms O’Dell intentionally set fire to the church, causing complete destruction.”
The rocks that passed through the stained glass of the church
The Texas woman was sentenced to six years in connection with the 2023 attack on a church in Washington. (US Prosecutor’s Office, Western District Washington)
“The sphere of destruction is staggering. You burned the spiritual house of the Congregation … The wounds you applied have deepened for each day they are away from their home,” the judge added.
The judge will determine the payment of restitution at a later date.
On August 25, 2023, O’Dell visited the family when she set fire to the church in Maltby.
According to the guilt and federal accusation agreement, it was linked to fire through cell phones, credit card records and video observation.
The investigation is related to O’Del with credit card purchases at the service station, where it has acquired several lighters and a container with a little liter of gasoline.
Natasha Marie O’Del, 38, was sentenced to three crimes for arson in the Seattle Church. (US Prosecutor’s Office, Western District Washington)
Despite the fact that the church was destroyed, some of the CCTV security system survived the fire and captured O’Del, which was moving around the church with a red gasoline.
It was seen on the shots as the container was emptied on the outer walls of the church and the objects around the building. Then O’Dell left the camera, and the fire could be noticed in the areas where she poured gasoline.
O’Dell confessed to the prosecutor’s office that she told several people who had been angry with churches, in particular in the Seattle Church. She later told another person what plans to burn next to the church.
Part of the CCTV security system survived the fire and captured the woman moving around the church with a gasoline container. (Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue)
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The fire has led to a loss in the church more than $ 3.2 million, which has incurred additional costs by renting a nearby high school to hold its services several times a week.
The fire was wounded during the fight against the flames and was transported to the trauma.
“Ms O’Dell acted with extremely ignoring the security of society when she poured more than a gallon of gasoline on the church building and used a easier to start a flame ”.” The statement stated that she was acting as a US prosecutor Ziti Miller. “This behavior put anyone in the church, neighbors around the church and firefighters who responded in an extraordinary danger. Lucky that only one firefighter was injured.”
