Muslim Teen's Memorial Set On Fire In DC; Man Arrested: Reports

UPDATE 3:13 p.m.: A South Carolina man, 24-year-old Jonathan Solomon, has been arrested for setting the blaze, but once again police say they don't suspect that it was a bias-related incident, according to the New York Daily News.

WASHINGTON, DC — A memorial set up for a Muslim teen from Reston, Virginia, who was murdered over the weekend, was set on fire in Dupont Circle in D.C. Wednesday morning.

Fox 5 reports that D.C. firefighters responded to the scene at around 8:30 a.m. and found the memorial for 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen on fire, putting it out a short time later. There's no indication of what caused the fire, and memorials often have burning candles.

Hassanen was slain early Sunday morning after Fairfax County Police say she and several of her friends got into an argument with a man in a vehicle, who then allegedly assaulted her with a baseball bat. Police later arrested 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres, saying it was a road rage incident and not a hate crime. However, members of the family and the Muslim community believe bigotry was involved.

SEE ALSO: Murder Of Nabra Hassanen: What You Need To Know

Authorities are investigating the Dupont Circle fire, according to Fox 5.

In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 photo, Mohmoud Hassanen Aboras, left, whose daughter Nabra Hassanen was killed, listens as Imam Mohamed Magid, center, of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, talks about the case in Reston, Va. (Matthew Barakat/Associated Press)

A vigil will be held in Hassanen's hometown of Reston Wednesday night.

Numerous people reacted angrily to the news on Twitter.

This is just abhorrent. What is happening? https://t.co/uarPo1TN11
— Diana Elbasha (@DianaElbasha) June 21, 2017

I'm speechless. Nabra was brutally abducted & murdered. If that wasn't horrible enough, we can't even mourn in peace https://t.co/2q7pE6wvKG
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) June 21, 2017

Islamophoboes set #Nabra's memorial on fire in Washington, DC - no limits to their hate https://t.co/tNcFu1krqR
— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) June 21, 2017

#Nabra memorial set on fire in Dupont Circle, wanna keep insisting this isn't about hate and islamophobia? https://t.co/04ofVGAXHH
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) June 21, 2017

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