Surveillance video shows a masked intruder breaking the front window, coming into the store and using what looks like a blow torch to light merchandise on fire.
FORT DODGE, Iowa — The dream of two Fort Dodge business owners turned into a nightmare Thursday when someone set fire to their merchandise.
It happened inside the store Fear to Dream/JustLikeThatKicks, a clothing and shoe shop created by Taj Lowery and Dreyzon Phillips back in 2022.
The chaos started with an early morning call from a neighbor that something at the shop wasn’t right.
“When I pulled up, it was just heartbreaking, really, when I seen it and everything was burnt up,” Lowery said. “Just smoke damage. I couldn’t, I didn’t have a key to get in at first, so we were just really looking through the broken glass to see, like, what happened.”
Surveillance video shows exactly what happened. A masked intruder breaks the front window, comes into …