Harris County man has been charged after allegedly setting fire to and shooting at neighbors’ homes while armed with a machete

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A West Harris County man is under arrest after he allegedly set his neighbors’ homes on fire armed with a machete.

Phi Le Nguyen, 46, faces two counts of arson and two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the crime.

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News shows him walking across the street to a neighbor’s home on Brighton Hollow Lane on Wednesday afternoon.

The homeowners told ABC13 that he poured gasoline on the side of the house and set it on fire, but it was easily extinguished. Signs of fire were visible on part of the brick facade and the lawn.

Moments later, Nguyen can be seen approaching another neighbor’s home. In the video, he is smoking a cigarette and holding a can of gasoline in one hand and a machete in the other.

He then pours the gasoline on the driveway before leaving the frame.

Then the homeowner told Eyewitness News that he doused their house with gasoline and lit a fire.

This fire appears to have burned only part of the lawn.

Nguyen retreats to the bottom of the driveway, where he can be seen surveying the damage before swinging the machete around.

He is accused in court documents of threatening the second homeowner and a responding Harris County sheriff’s deputy with the machete.

Nguyen is being held on a $150,000 bond.

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