Federal agents are investigating a fire that Monday night destroyed the church where Michael Brown Sr. was baptized only a day earlier, CNN is reporting.
The Flood Christian Church was one of more than a dozen structures that were burned Monday night in Ferguson after the announcement that a grand jury had decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown Jr. to death in August.
A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms told Buzzfeed that the church was in the same area where other buildings were burned, however, Rev. Carlton Lee told CNN that the church was in an area where "nothing was going on."
Lee said on Tuesday that he didn't believe the church was burned by protestors who were angry about about the grand jury decision, but by white supremacists who targeted the building because of his outspoken views on Brown's shooting and the Brown family's connection to the church.
"Sunday, we do the baptism, Monday, the church is one fire. It just doesn't add up," Lee told NBC News.
[Via CNN]
