Planned Parenthood fire: Man charged with setting blaze at Peoria facility, officials say

Wednesday, January 25, 2023
PEORIA, Ill. (WLS) -- A man has been arrested and charged in connection to a fire at Planned Parenthood in Peoria.

Prosecutors said Tyler Massengill broke a window and put an incendiary device through it in the middle of the night earlier this month.
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The incident occurred two days after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law reproductive health care legislation to protect out-of-state abortion seekers, adding Illinois to the list of states that have placed legal reinforcements around the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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The facility remains closed because of damage from the fire.

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