DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Customers were forced out of a local Walmart store after police say someone tried to set a fire inside the store.
We're working to learn when the store will reopen, for an update on Channel 2 Action News This Morning starting at 4:30 a.m.
Workers and customers are being kept out of store along Thorton Road in Lithia Springs.
Store workers told Channel 2's Nefertiti Jaquez that a teen started some cotton balls and possibly other cosmetic products on fire in the cosmetics department.
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Investigators said the young man was taken into custody, but no charges have been filed at this point.
The store remains closed and there’s no word on when it will be reopened.
Jaquez contacted Walmart for a comment. They said in a statement:
“We are currently working with the local fire department as well as the Department of Health and will re-open the store as soon as it is safe to do so.”
Officials will only confirm there is a fire investigation. Walmart workers tell us off camera a younger man took a lighter and set these cotton balls and other products on fire in the cosmetics section of the Walmart. More @ 6PM. (Picture by: @wsbtv intern @cec_tv) #team2 pic.twitter.com/lXXRCGZV23
— Nefertiti Jáquez (@NefertitiWSB) April 29, 2018
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