Entrance to a Home & Pharmacy store with a blue sign above the automatic sliding doors. In front of the entrance, there are three concrete bollards, and a large pile of dark-colored clothing or fabric scattered on the ground. A shopping cart filled with items is positioned to the left side near a brick wall. A "No Parking Fire Lane" sign is mounted on the wall near the entrance. The ground is paved with interlocking bricks.

A man set bathroom mats and towels on fire inside the Chamblee Walmart on Saturday afternoon, forcing the store to close.

What happened: Chamblee police got a call at 1:31 p.m. about a fire in the bathroom aisle of the Walmart at 1871 Chamblee Tucker Road.

Cameras inside and outside the store caught the man walking toward the Chamblee MARTA Station after the fire started.

The arrest: A suspect was taken into custody at the Doraville MARTA Station.

What’s next: Investigators are looking into whether the fire was set on purpose. The Walmart remains closed, and the case is still under investigation.

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B.T. Clark is the Publisher of The Georgia Sun and author of Principles Are Like Pants… You Ought to Have Some. Over two decades in journalism, he has served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc., earning multiple awards along the way. His work has appeared in newspapers across the state, including The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal.

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