Police searching for man accused of setting Phoenix LGBTQ center ablaze

PHOENIX — Law enforcement was searching for a man suspected of lighting a LGBTQ center in Phoenix on fire earlier this month.

The Phoenix Fire Department said Darren William Beach Jr. allegedly set the blaze inside the One N Ten Youth Center near Third Street and Osborn Road on July 12.

Video showed a man walking into the center carrying a container of what appeared to be gasoline and strewing the liquid about before igniting it.

Beach is 26 years old. He stands 6-foot-2 and weighs about 280 pounds.

Anyone with information about Beach’s whereabouts was asked to call 911.

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