Police in York Region have released dramatic footage of two people setting a fire inside the lobby of a movie theatre in Richmond Hill over the weekend.
They say emergency services were dispatched to a cinema near East Beaver Creek and Highway 7 shortly after 11 p.m. after a fire was reported.
Police say the fire, which was set in the main lobby, activated the sprinkler system which doused the fire.
There were a number of people in a second-floor theatre at the time of the incident but there were no injuries reported to police.
In the video, a grey sport utility vehicle (SUV), with Ontario licence plate DCKP 812, parks in front of the theatre before two people exit and make their way towards the theatre.
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They then place an object on the ground, before throwing what police describe as, “Molotov cocktails at it, causing a fire to ignite.“
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The pair then run quickly out of the theatre to escape in the SUV as a fire grows quickly behind them.
Police say the vehicle is as a grey Acura RDX which had been reported stolen in Toronto on Oct. 28.
They described the first suspect as having a medium build and was said to be wearing black shoes, black pants, a black hooded sweatshirt with a white shirt underneath, black gloves and a mask.
The second suspect was also said to have a medium build and was dressed in white shoes, black pants, a grey hooded sweatshirt, black gloves and a mask.
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