California man attacks tea shop customers with homemade blowtorch, hatchet, terrifying video shows
The man reportedly started his bizarre attack outside a pizza shop
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A man attacked several customers with a blowtorch inside the Feng Cha Teahouse (pictured) in Berkeley, California, earlier this week. (Google Maps)
A man was arrested after he tried to set several people on fire inside a boba tea shop in Berkeley, Calif., according to police.
The suspect, identified by police as Brandon McGlone, 46, reportedly started his bizarre attack on two men outside a pizza shop on Monday night.
According to a press release from Berkeley Police, McGlone knocked their food off the table, threatened to light them on fire and eventually sprayed WD-40 on them as they walked away.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}From there, he entered a boba tea shop called Feng Cha Teahouse and sprayed two other people with WD-40 before lighting the spray, according to the release.
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Security footage acquired by San Francisco’s KPIX5 shows the moment the tea shop customers were attacked.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In the video, a man steps barely inside the shop before he takes a canister and sprays the hair of two people waiting in line for tea.
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Almost immediately, the spray is lit on fire and the customers duck and extinguish the flames from their hair.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The man quickly leaves the restaurant and several customers follow him, the video shows.
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“He said something right before he sprayed, and it was kind of like an evil chuckle,” one woman told KPIX 5.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}According to police, several people nearby “tried to subdue the suspect,” after he left the tea shop. In the struggle, McGlone “showed others that he was armed with a hatchet.”
“He was holding the ax and he was, like, just staggering around, and he was getting closer and closer and it was really scary,” the woman told KPIX5.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Eventually, police convinced McGlone to put down his hatchet. When they searched him, they also found other weapons including several knives, a machete, matches, lighters and “several ‘Molotov cocktails,’” -- containers filled with a flammable liquid and a way to ignite them -- according to police.
No one was seriously injured, according to reports.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On Wednesday, McGlone was charged with arson, criminal threats, throwing a flammable substance on another, assault with a deadly weapon and possession of destructive devices, among other charges, according to the press release.