Woman Throws Flaming ‘Molotov Cocktail’ at Pro-Life Prayer Group
A woman was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after reportedly throwing a “molotov cocktail” at a prayer group.
Pro-life activists were praying around a Planned Parenthood clinic when witnesses reported a woman throwing a “flaming object” out of her car window and at the intercessors.
“Yesterday evening toward the end of the daily prayer vigil, a passerby threw a flaming object at the prayer volunteers. Fortunately no one was injured and the flames were put out quickly,” the Central Texas Coalition for Life tells Life News. “This is not the first time people have thrown objects at pro-lifers but clearly this instance was a more direct threat, and we always want to exercise caution.”
Police have identified and arrested Melanie Toney as the attacker.
Ruth Allwein, a pro-life protester, told local Austin, Texas, TV station KVUE the details of the attack.
“It looked like some sort of bottle, and it had an ignited wick in it, so my first instinct was backing away,” she says.
The news station reports, “Toney admitted to throwing a bottle out the window with some paper in it and said it ‘might’ have been smoldering when she threw it.”
