23-year-old Holden James Matthews has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he admitted to intentionally setting fire to three African-American churches in St. Landry Parish in the Spring of 2019.
22-year-old Holden Matthews, the man suspected of setting fire to three African-American Churches in St. Landry Parish in the Spring of 2019, is scheduled to change his plea.
Opelousas native Holden James was charged by a federal grand jury in an indictment unsealed today for setting fire to and destroying three churches in St. Landry Parish.
Prosecutors have now added hate crime charges against the white suspect in three recent arson fires that destroyed African American churches in Louisiana.