SMH! Florida Teen Sets Fire to Girlfriend’s House, Blames ‘Random Black Guy’

We're filing this under things that just don't make any damn sense.

Jose Madrigal, a 19-year-old arsonist in Florida, allegedly googled “how to burn a brick house down” before setting fire to his girlfriend’s Polk City home the day after Thanksgiving.  

“He planned this in advance. He Googled how to burn the house, he mixed the combination and poof, he set it on fire. And poof, we put him in jail,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Oh...and he had the audacity to lie to the cops and say that a Black man set the fire, not him. Because you know...all Black men are criminals.  Yeah. He tried it. 

The girlfriend, who has not been identified, and her parents were inside of their home at the time of the blaze. So how did this all pop off?

According to police, Madrigal created a fake Snapchat account and sent death threats to his girlfriend days before he attempted the deed.

“I thank God because God was on our side,” said James Scott, the girlfriend’s father. “If it would have gone 5 or 10 more minutes, the car would have blew up. My house would have been on fire. He could have killed us.”

The Daily Beast reports that Madrigal used lighter fluid to draw a heart on a fence near his girlfriend’s window; he later drove by the home to watch it burn. But that’s not all.

Neighbor Margaret Elkins told News Channel 8 that she was on the scene helping to extinguish the flames when Madrigal showed up and said, “Usually the one that does it comes back to see what all the excitement is about.”

Madrigal faces three counts of attempted first-degree homicide and one count of first-degree arson. He also faces one count of possession of liquor by a person under 21 because he had a half-empty bottle of vodka in his car.

But listen to this...Scott (the girlfriend's father) went on and on about how he feels sorry for the little pyromaniac that tried to kill his family. 

But real talk: is anybody concerned about the “random black guy” who could have been choked up by cops and shot down in the street—all because he fit the blanket description given to police by a drunk, violent teenager?

FAM: What do you think of this dude blaming a Black man for his crime? Weigh in...