A man is dead after witnesses say he lit a bale of hay on fire on the back of his truck and then drove the vehicle into the building of the Twiford Law Office.
This happened at 111 Currituck Commercial Drive. NewsChannel 3 spoke with an attorney from the firm and the sheriff there. At 5:30 p.m. on Friday, the sheriff received a call about the incident. They say the man was driving a gold pick-up truck and was seen driving around the area a while before the fire.
“It`s very unnerving,” says Edward O’Neal, an attorney at Twiford Law Office. “He got out of the truck in that parking lot and went back and lit the bales of hay that were in the back of that truck and they were flaming. The truck was fully engulfed and he got back in it and drove it into the building. It almost went completely through the building.”
Witnesses say the man was circling around the complex and waited until the last employee walked out.
“I hope that his mindset was that he didn`t want to hurt anybody else, but that would also be speculation because I`m not sure why he waited until the building was cleared,” says Currituck County Sheriff Susan Johnson. “He had time to have drove into the building if had chosen to do that.”
Sheriff Johnson says there were several explosions reported during the fire, which makes investigators wonder if an accelerant was used.
“We affect a lot of people in high stress environments and so It`s hard to imagine someone would be that distraught so we`re just trying to get to the bottom of what happened,” O’Neal says.
A man walking outside of the law office saw the man drive up in the truck and hit the building.
The man is still in the vehicle at this time waiting for investigators to arrive. After an investigation, the body will be transported to the medical examiner’s office.
No one knows the driver. The license plate melted and they are not able to find out who owns the vehicle.
They are calling this case an arson/suicide.
Stay with NewsChannel 3 for more information.
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