Authorities: San Jose Home Depot Arson Suspect Shoplifted Minutes Earlier, Was On Probation

Campbell CA

21 April, 2022

11:59 AM

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By Katie Nielsen, CBS San Francisco April 21, 2022 Additional details have emerged about a man accused of setting a massive inferno that burned a Home Depot store in South San Jose to the ground. The fire happened on April 9 around 5:30pm. Police said 27-year-old Dyllin Jaycruz Gogue set the fire as a diversion to try to walk out of the store with a cart full of merchandise. Less than an hour before, police said he stole a tent and other items from the Bass Pro Shop on Cherry Avenue in San Jose. Police have released a surveillance photo of a man they say is Gogue taken about a half hour before he went to the Home Depot. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.