NEVADA, Mo. — An El Dorado Springs man remains hospitalized and charged with setting a Nevada church on fire. Keith Caylor, 58, is accused of breaking into the First Christian Church at Washington and Austin Streets early Saturday morning, August 17th, 2024 and then setting the church on fire.
According to
court records, Caylor called 911 and told dispatchers that “people” were trying
to set him on fire and kill him. Police said when they arrived on the scene,
they found Caylor outside of the church, bleeding from his hands with his shirt
covered in blood. They said it appeared that Caylor broke a window to get into
the church and then set fires in two locations inside the building.
Prosecutors
charged Caylor with arson, burglary, and property damage. He is in a Kansas
City hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Nevada Police Chief, Casey
Crain, says when Caylor is released from the hospital, he will be taken into
custody in Kansas City and transported to Vernon County to face the charges.
