Man Arrested Over Fire at Memorial for Pulse Nightclub Victims

A man was arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed part of the Pulse Interim Memorial in Orlando, Fla., which honors the 49 victims of one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

The man, Mark Henson, 64, of Orlando, was charged on Tuesday with felony criminal mischief, the Orlando Fire Department said in a statement.

No one was injured in the fire, which was captured on surveillance video. The Fire Department said that the video, along with witness statements, led investigators to make the arrest.

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Henson had a lawyer.

On Saturday, the onePULSE Foundation, the nonprofit group that created the memorial to honor those killed five years ago at Pulse, a gay nightclub, released a video on Facebook showing a man setting fire to the site.

The video showed that just before 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 12, a man, whom the authorities later identified as Mr. Henson, pulled up to the memorial in a wheelchair and set fire to the materials on “the offering wall,” which features mementos and flowers.

Within seconds, the materials erupted in flames, the video showed.

As the blaze spread, the man then moved away from the memorial and headed down a street, away from the surveillance camera. After more than 15 minutes, the fire burned itself out.