A WITNESS TO THE 1-85 FIRE SAYS SHE HEARD THE SUSPECT LAUGH AND BOAST ABOUT BURNING DOWN THE FREEWAY…READ MORE AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!
A witness to the I-85 massacre has told WBSTV that she saw the suspect intentionally burn down the freeway and recalls his proud statement afterward.
“I ran into him by the dumpster and that black smoke was coming up,” Sophia Brauer told Mark Winne of Channel 2 Action News. “I said, ‘Oh my God, Basil, look at that!’
“He looked at me. He gave this evil smile and said, ‘Ha, ha, ha. I did that.’”
She said she saw the suspect, Basil Eleby, crack cocaine in a cart shortly before the fire and watched him put a sofa on top of a Target plastic shopping cart and then reach underneath to catch the sofa on fire.
“It was all burning,” Brauer said. “It was hot as hell. I’m talking about the Target cart was melting.”
She said the burning sofa was up against spools of tubing that were stored beneath the overpass.
“I was praying nobody died, you know?” Brauer said.’
The two were questioned by investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Atlanta Fire Rescue and the state fire marshal’s office. Eleby is charged with arson and criminal damage to property and is in the Fulton County jail in lieu of $200,000 bond.
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