Jeweli Rhodes encountered a man at the Squealing Pig, a neighborhood hangout, when she said something didn’t seem right.
“And then it looked like he was moving the table on the fire,” said Rhodes, who lives nearby.
She tells Boston 25 News she saw a man in the flames.
“I saw a gentleman in there who wasn’t 100 percent sure what he was doing, and then I saw a table on fire,” she said.
It was around midnight on Tuesday and she was on her way to the store. She saw broken glass outside the Squealing Pig… so she took out her phone to record the scene.
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“I saw him inside and thought he was a worker cleaning up the glass, which I thought someone else had broken,” Rhodes said.
But she wasn’t sure. Her video shows inside. Someone sent her video of her outside before the fire and a man breaking the windows. It’s not clear if it’s the same man… but Rhodes’ friend thinks it is.
“It’s the suspect breaking all the windows and it looked like the same person that was in the video next to the fire burning in the bar,” said Roger Colon, who lives down the street.
The Boston Fire Department would not say whether arson was suspected, but did say the fire was under investigation.
But for neighbors who loved this local pub, the loss is hard.
“It hurts the community, places like this are original. Places like this are becoming less and less common here,” Colon said.
Boston Fire says the investigation continues.
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