New Jersey: IIDs Thrown at Apartment Building
On 28 September 2024, at approximately 0100 hours local time, a male suspect reportedly threw two improvised incendiary devices (IIDs), described as Molotov cocktails, at an apartment building on the 500 block of Vine Street in Elizabeth before fleeing the scene. Elizabeth firefighters responded and quickly extinguished the blaze. No injuries were reported. A county arson investigator stated that a “bottle cap with a wick and the smell of some form of accelerant” was found at the scene. The investigation is ongoing.