Tennessean

August 3, 2015

Metro police charged an East Nashville woman Thursday with arson after they say she set two neighbors’ luxury-model cars ablaze, causing a raging fire that took firefighters nearly an hour to snuff out.

Chantel Kimble, 19, who suffered second- and third-degree burns during what firefighters described as an inferno, was booked into the Davidson County Jail on Thursday afternoon in connection with the July 17 fires, court papers show.

According to an arrest affidavit, Kimble admitted to investigators that just before 2:45 a.m. on the day of the crime, she grabbed a gas can from her house and walked a short distance to 730 N. Fifth Ave., where she set fire to a BMW and a Lexus.

Kimble said she “drenched the BMW with gasoline, took a piece of paper from her pocket and lit it with a cigarette lighter and threw it on the car.”

In doing so, her gas can caught fire, causing her to drop it and kick it into the street, the affidavit continues.

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