JANESVILLE— A 36-year-old convicted felon from Oregon, Wis., was charged in court Wednesday for throwing a flaming Bud Light bottle into his girlfriend’s bathroom to start a fire.
Matthew Kitsemble, was charged with two counts of first degree recklessly endangering safety as a repeater, arson as a repeater and one count of selling, possessing or manufacturing a molotov cocktail.
According to the complaint:
On Aug. 31 officers were dispatched to a residence on South Jackson Street. Kitsemble’s girlfriend and her stepmother were at the residence.
She and her stepmother were in the bathroom when a Bud Light bottle that was on fire was tossed through the window. The stepmother said she saw Kitsemble throw it and described it as a molotov cocktail which is a bottle with a cloth lit on fire hanging out of the bottle.
She said the bottle landed on the floor and caused the floor and the curtain to start on fire. She said she jumped into the shower and turned on the water in an attempt to put the fire out.