‘I’m about to blow this apartment up’: Threat caught on camera before Jackson fire

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A Jackson apartment building caught fire Sunday, leaving eight families without a home after a Ring camera captured a man threatening to blow up an apartment hours before the blaze.

“I’m about to blow this apartment up,” the man said in the video.

Hours later, around 5:30 a.m., Jayla M. heard a fire alarm ring nonstop in the apartment. She thought someone was burning something and it had been put out. The alarm kept coming back on…

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