The alleged fire that allegedly tried to kill the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, decided to bomb his official residence due to “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a raid order signed by the State Police of Pennsylvania.
The researchers obtained several arrest warrants as part of the investigation into the attack of fires caused by Sunday morning, even for the suspect storage unit Cody Balmer, the electronic devices and the home of the parents, where he told a judge of Dauphin County that he had been living recently.
Balmer, 38, directed Shapiro “based on injustices perceived for the people of Palestine,” said one of the orders.
Cody A. Balmer appears for a photo of the photo after being accused in relation to a fire in the residence of the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, on April 13, 2025 in Harrisburg, Pa.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi firmly condemned the attack in comments in the Department of Justice on Wednesday, but she refused to label the law of “internal terrorism” or commit to open a separate federal case against the suspect.
“It is absolutely horrible what happened to him,” Bondi said. “We have been praying for Josh, for his family. Those photos were horrible. I firmly believe that they wanted to kill him. The defendant allegedly said that he was going to use a hammer if he could have reached the governor. I have met the governors many, many years. It is horrible, and yes, we are working with the state authorities so that it is now an investment, anything, anything that goes at the same time that we have done it with the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave the person who gave him the person That has done the person who gave the person who can make the person who gave them possible. “
The damage is seen after a fire in the mansion of the governor of Pennsylvania, while Democratic governor Josh Shapiro and his family slept on April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Bondi did not answer a direct question of a journalist about whether he would label the “domestic terrorism” action, since he has repeatedly described the wave of attacks carried out in teslas and concessionaires throughout the country in recent months.
The attack occurred hours after the Shapiro family received more than two dozen people during the first Easter night.
The fire was reported at 2 in the morning of Sunday and the family was safely evacuated.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, pauses during a press conference at the official residence of the governor discussing the alleged fire that forced him, his family and invited to flee in the middle of the night, on April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa.
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The researchers have not published a reason for the attack, but the search warrant represents the most direct indication of why Balmer allegedly jumped a fence in the governor’s mansion, broke windows and threw Molotov cocktails, the police said he made bottles of beer and gasoline.
Balmer called 911 less than an hour after the attack, identified and told the call policyholder that he will not participate in Shapiro’s plans “for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” the order said. Balmer added that Shapiro needed to “stop killing my friends.”
“Our people have been crossed too much by that monster,” he added, according to the document.
Balmer said that “everything you have is a banquet hall to clean,” the document said.
“You all know where to find me,” Balmer added, according to the document. “I’m not hiding, and I will confess everything I had done.”
After surrendering, Balmer supposedly told the Police that he would have attacked Shapiro with a hammer if he met the governor inside the residence, according to judicial documents.
The damage is seen after a fire in the mansion of the governor of Pennsylvania, while Democratic governor Josh Shapiro and his family slept on April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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“I know that there are people who want to attribute their own views about what happened here and why … I choose not to participate in that,” Shapiro told reporters on Wednesday to the opening of a new hershey chocolate processing installation in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
“Prosecutors will finally determine what motivated this. The District Prosecutor and the Department of Justice can comment on that,” he added.
“Violence does not take place in our society, regardless of what motivates it,” Shapiro said, noting that the attack must be sentenced by both parties.
Balmer faces eight criminal charges, including murder attempts, terrorism and burning fire. Prosecutors have not invoked a law of hate crimes, which in Pennsylvania is known as ethnic intimidation.
When a journalist asked him if he wants charges for hate crimes, the governor said that this is a decision for the District Prosecutor and the Department of Justice.
The Penylvania State Police have hired an external investigator to carry out a review of their security position in the governor’s mansion. The review will include a “risk assessment and residence vulnerability and the reasons for the governor,” police said.
Shapiro said the state police review is “justified.”
