Charlotte police have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the hate crime and arson at an east Charlotte store last week.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said detectives received information that assisted them in identifying Curtis Flournoy as the suspect. He was arrested Sunday morning.
Police said Flournoy threw a rock through a window at Central Market and started a fire at the door last Thursday. Flournoy left behind a note demanding immigrants move away, threatening to torture immigrants and refugees, and signed it “White America,” police said.
Police called the incident arson and a hate crime against the store’s owner, Kamal Dhimel, a refugee from Bhutan. Members of the community set up a GoFundMe page Saturday, seeking to raise $2,500 for Dhimel to repair his store.
Central Market is a Nepali Indian store that sells fast food, groceries and gifts, mostly from the Indian subcontinent (Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Bhutan).
Flournoy was charged with burning a building of trade, malicious damage by use of an incendiary material, felony breaking and entering, ethnic intimidation and anonymous or threatening letters.
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