Pittsburgh vacant church fire suspect undergoing competency evaluation

It’s been two weeks since a massive fire engulfed a vacant church atop Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood, and the person charged in connection with the blaze was scheduled to appear in municipal court on Tuesday.

But Colton Normand remains in the Allegheny County Jail under psychiatric observation and is still not talking to investigators.

The 23-year-old from Boise, Idaho, has remained a mystery to police since their arrest on the scene of the spectacular fire. After rushing past firefighters to a church window at the height of the blaze, police took Normand into custody, where Normand said they wanted to see the flames close-up and gave a false name…

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