Overview

• Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, 21, has been named as the suspect in the June 12 arson that damaged or destroyed 11 NYPD vehicles in a Bushwick parking lot.
• Surveillance video from a nearby bodega captured him carrying gasoline containers, fire-starter rolls and a torch-style lighter into the lot.
• The blaze inflicted more than $500,000 in damages and replacement costs for the burned cruisers are estimated at $800,000.
• Lodgson-McCray is known to police for his role in pro-Palestine demonstrations and past vandalism, including a statue defacement at Columbia University and a flag burning at the Israeli consulate.
• Investigators say footage also shows him changing clothes en route to the lot, reinforcing the NYPD’s assessment that he acted alone in the attack.