Tourists helped stop Martin Luther King Jr. home from being set on fire by woman wielding gasoline and lighter: Police

It was a stroke of luck this week in Atlanta when two tourists from Utah who stopped to see the historic house of Martin Luther King Jr. at the last minute and spotted a woman near the bushes of the civil rights icon’s home wielding a canister of gasoline, and a lighter, authorities said.

An incident report from the Atlanta Police Department obtained on Friday by Law&Crime says two men from Utah in the state on business decided to check out the King Jr. house before leaving. Bryce Grady and Zachery Kempf spotted a woman dressed in all black, Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, behaving oddly outside the home, the document said.

Henderson, they told police, was “pouring what seemed to be water at the time over the bushes” and did not think anything of it. When they asked her if she was doing upkeep by watering them, the men said Henderson didn’t respond.

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