Arsonist Admits To Burning Down Building But Makes A SHOCKING Confession

Montez T. Lee Jr., a 26-year-old Minnesota man has admitted to setting a local pawn shop on fire while participating in the BLM riots that lasted throughout 2020 to protest the death of George Floyd and many others.

However, the young man denied any responsibility for the death of the 30-year-old man found inside the burned-down shop.

Last week, Lee admitted in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to one count of arson in connection with the fire that engulfed the Max It Pawn store on May 28, 2020, the Star Tribune reported Tuesday.

“Surveillance video footage showed Lee pouring an accelerant around the shop and lighting it. A second video captured Lee standing in front of the burning business and saying that they were going to burn it down,” the report added. Oscar Lee Stewart Jr.’s dead body was recovered about two months later inside the burned pawnshop.

“An autopsy conducted by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that Stewart died of smoke inhalation and excessive burns,” the Star Tribune report noted.

Bruce Rivers, Lee’s defense attorney, claims that Lee isn’t at fault for the death of Steward. Rivers claimed that he has “a competing medical examination” that denies any involvement of Lee’s action in Steward’s death.

Rivers also said his client “prior to lighting the fire looked through the building to make sure no one was there.”

“He feels terrible,” Rivers added.

Lee, thus far, has not been charged directly with Stewart’s death; instead, prosecution “is going to push for a harsher sentence because the arson resulted in a death,” said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tasha Zerna.

“Prosecutors are contending that federal sentencing guidelines call for Lee to receive a prison term ranging from 17½ to 20 years,” the Star Tribune reported. “The defense calculates a term of five years.”

As noted by The Daily Wire, retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn was killed while defending his friend’s pawnshop from rioters:

In a video that has since been removed, Dorn, 77, can be seen defending the business during his last moments of life. Dorn was killed by looters and rioters who broke into Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry; his body was found on the sidewalk outside around 2:30 a.m. [June 2, 2020]. …

Dorn’s wife, St. Louis police Sgt. Ann Marie Dorn told the St. Louis Dispatch that her husband was friends with the owner of the pawnshop and regularly came to the owner’s aid whenever alarms went off.

“Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a Great Police Captain from St. Louis, who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night,” then-President Donald Trump honored Dorn at the time. “We honor our police officers, perhaps more than ever before. Thank you!”