Man accused of setting fire outside Trump Store in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News/Gray News) - An Arizona man is facing charges after law enforcement said he set a fire near the Trump Store in Tombstone.

Donald William Rudy, 58, was arrested on May 4 after he was reportedly seen on security footage starting the fire.

“The videos captured the suspect exiting the vehicle, removing materials from the truck bed, and igniting a fire in an area near brush and vegetation,” a representative with the Tombstone Marshal’s Office wrote in a press release.

Rudy also was accused of trying to start a fire that morning at church, calling the fires his “shrines.”

When asked about a motive, he allegedly said the fires were a way to “ask for rain upon the earth,” law enforcement said. No political affiliations or ideologies were mentioned.

Rudy also had been indicted on weapons misconduct charges in a nearby town, according to court documents.