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A hate crime investigation is underway after someone set fire to the home of the Connersville’s only Black council member.
Connersville councilman Tommy Williams was in Germany visiting with family while his wife Emma, a Connersville native, was in Florida when the fire started.
Most of the fire damage was done in the bedroom where the councilman’s clothes were set on fire on the bed.
On the back patio, a racial slur was spray painted in big foot-long letters
The case has been turned over to federal investigators.
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