Worker Throws Molotov Cocktail Into East Harlem Restaurant: Cops

EAST HARLEM, NY — Police are trying to find a man who threw a Molotov cocktail into an East Harlem Mexican restaurant after a spat with co-workers, an NYPD spokesman said.

The man got into a fight with his co-workers at Pinole Mexican Restaurant on East 115th Street and Third Avenue around 9 p.m. an NYPD spokesman said. The man stormed out of the business, only to return about 45 minutes later holding a bottle full of lighter fluid, police said.

The man lit the Molotov cocktail an threw it inside the restaurant, starting a fire, police said. First responders rushed to the building and put the fire out within minutes, an NYPD spokesman said.

Nobody was injured during the fire, an NYP spokesman said. Police are still trying to locate the suspect.

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