ORLANDO, Fla. —  As Orlando and the LGBT community grapple with what happened, investigators are looking for a person seen on surveillance video at the Pulse Interim Memorial when it caught fire on Oct. 12.


What You Need To Know

  • Surveillance video shows someone setting fire to Pulse Memorial Wall in Orlando

  • onePulse Foundation officials said the vandalism happened Oct. 12 

  • Foundation officials asking anyone with information to call Orlando police at (407) 246-2470

The onePulse Foundation posted surveillance video over the weekend from the night which appears to show a person in a wheelchair go to the wall and set it on fire.

Foundation officials say they just got the footage and want people to help find the person seen in the video. Orlando’s police and fire departments are investigating the incident.

Three Angel Banners were damaged in the fire as well as mementos like artificial flowers.

The interim memorial commemorates the 49 people killed in the shooting at the nightclub in 2016. It is also the future site of the National Pulse Memorial.

“This is the last space I got to see my best friends,” said survivor Brandon Wolf. “Late at night when no one else is here, I come when I want to feel close to them again. And the idea that someone could desecrate a space like that, do something so violent and so hateful, it’s really heartbreaking to me.”

Wolf hopes whoever set the fire is brought to justice and said Orlando and the LGBT community would not be defined by this incident.

“I want to encourage everyone who’s seeing it, feeling pain, feeling grief, to feel those things because they’re normal and natural and valid,” he said, “But also know that this isn’t who we are and it’s not going to define who we will be moving forward either.”

Kate Teixeira and her friend visited the memorial for the first time Monday and said they were saddened and angered to hear about what happened.

“It’s just so senseless,” said Teixeira, a member of the LGBT community. “All of it is senseless.”