Texas Woman Sets Neighbor’s House and Vehicles on Fire

A woman in Magnolia, Texas was taken into custody and sent to a hospital after she was seen setting her neighbor's porch and vehicles on fire.

ABC13 Houston reports that this incident occurred at the 26000 block of Rhode Island Street in the Victoria Village Mobile Home Community.

Christine Riley was seen on video surveillance dropping a burning piece of paper, that was a page out of the bible, on her neighbor's porch which went up in flames.

Photos were released but the Fire Marshal's Office shows Riley spreading a fluid
(gas) around the door to the trailer house where her neighbors were asleep. Luckily Setcheel Sanchez showed up at the residence when the woman was attempting to set it ablaze and he started honking the horn on his vehicle to wake up those inside.

Sanchez showed up at the house because it is where his boss resides.

According to ABC13, Mitzi Garza woke up and confronted the woman with the burning piece of paper in her hand and asked her what she was doing, and the woman with the burning paper replied, "What do you think I'm doing."

The occupants of the home were all able to escape the home through a backdoor and no one was injured in the fire. As for Christine Riley well she barricaded herself in a home which led to a 12-hour standoff with police.

She was ultimately detained and removed from the house on a stretcher, then taken to a hospital for an evaluation. Riley reportedly suffers from a mental illness and at the time authorities don't know what her motive was.

In addition to setting the family's front porch on fire, Riley allegedly attempted to set three vehicles on fire too in front of the house.

The incident is under investigation at this time by the Fire Marshall's Office in Texas and they are attempting to determine the woman's motive in this fire.

Christine Rilley was ultimately booked into the Montgomery County Jail on a first-degree felony arson charge.

All persons in this case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.