Update: A suspect was arrested.
Col. Christopher Paris, state police commissioner, said at an afternoon news conference that Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, was arrested Sunday.
.@GovernorShapiro addressing the arson incident at his home last night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
SUSPECT ARRESTED: Cody Balmer age 38
4.13.25 520 pm ET pic.twitter.com/UExNHDckSi
— Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) April 13, 2025
Balmer hasn’t been charged, but Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said he plans to charge him with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person.
Cody Balmer was reportedly angry over the state’s auctioning of his property. A court document from Harrisburg surfaced, linking the auction to Balmer’s motive.
Original Story
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family awoke to the sound of police banging on their door as they responded to the fire at the mansion in Harrisburg.
The mansion was set on fire early Sunday while he and his family were inside, he said. The state police investigated it as arson.
“While the investigation is ongoing, the State Police is prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson,” the release states.
Firefighters arrived at 2 am.
Officials extinguished the fire, which they said was in a different part of the residence than Shapiro and his family, but it caused “a significant amount of damage.” The investigation is ongoing.
“Thank God no one was injured and the fire was extinguished,” Shapiro said in a statement Sunday morning. “Every day, we stand with the law enforcement and first responders who run towards danger to protect our communities.”
Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.
The Harrisburg Bureau of Fire was on the scene and while they worked to put out the fire, we were…
— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) April 13, 2025
It’s Passover
On Saturday, Shapiro, who is Jewish, posted a photo online of his family’s table for Seder, a ceremonial dinner marking the Passover holiday.
From the Shapiro family’s Seder table to yours, happy Passover and Chag Pesach Sameach! pic.twitter.com/2II1Id1W23
— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) April 12, 2025
“While the fire was successfully extinguished, it caused a significant amount of damage to a portion of the residence,” according to a PSP Tips Facebook page.
Shapiro burning evidence of his involvement in the Butler assassination attempt already?
Too bad Shapiro didn’t die. PA needs a break.
how much you want to bet its a unhinged lib.
So how did they find him? Or did they just go down the list to see who the Government screwed over this week?
Let me guess, you think the role of government is first and foremost, philanthropy.
He’ll be lauded as a hero
me thinks it was a dumb demoncrat who thought Shapiro’s residence was a Tesla dealership.
Must have looked like a Tesla.
The PA Governor’s Mansion is not Shapiro’s house it’s his residence. He’s not the first nor the last to occupy it.
Time to fire the “security” team.
Let’s take this opportunity to agree, both Republicans and Democrats, that it’s not OK to damage someone else’s property or endanger them because you are angry about something they did or who they are.
Until our Judges grow a set of testicles and issue proper and just consequences to all criminals, regardless to race or economic dysfunction, this crap will continue and also get much, much worse.
Looks like the typical democrat expression of displeasure….. They only understand brutal force and ignorance. Maybe people finally discovered what the nature of those people is!
It’s a ploy for attention, and an attempt to blame the other side.
No Conservative is going to waste their time, or risk jail time.
OR! It could be an attempt at insurance fraud. How else does one get their house remodeled without going out of pocket?
It is not as uncommon as you may think.
3…2…1… Blame it on #MAGA supporters
Funny, I have seen very little legacy media reporting. I’ve looked and now I finally see a 1 1/2 minute report from the local TV station. Very curious.
I know 2 families who have lost their homes to fires in the last year. It happens, and its rarely arson.
Sadly, the motive of the attacker will never be known.
There is an allegation that Shapiro was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate DJT last year. His reward was alleged to be the enhancement of his standing in the Democratic Party to be the VP nominee in the 2024 election. The attempt failed. So did he. How is that investigation coming along?
Most likely one of his palestinian democRATs set the fire.
So sorry to hear that. Incredible!
I have never known of a Republican do violence; however, I have heard of Democrats doing violence and have seen it many times on TV (usually via paid proxies.)
I would highly suspect Illegal Aliens of doing this .NB Biden’s allowing and abetting 12 million+ unvetted aliens into our country to cause chaos and I condem Democrats for their complicity!
Must have been someone torching his tesla.
This is not cool. It will be found out to be a left wing agitator paid by George Soros till they get too close and drop the investigation because they “have no leads.” Conservatives don’t do this, we never have, we never will. One answer…Democrats
This is either the usual Deep State Democrat playbook scenerio to attempt to make the other side look bad (fake hate) or just some random mental patient. Conservatives have jobs, family and more productive things to do.
Or it’s a typical democrat voter from the hate jews wing of the democrat party. Unfortunately, the democrat party is still an undeclared domestic terrorist organization.
Or Shapiro, he is a democrat and they are known for these things, False flags. It was in a separate part of the house.
He’s trying to look more moderate so he can make a run for President…false flag would explain much.
Yes, like storm the Capitol?
Your analysis is ridiculous. We don’t know this guy’s party affiliation nor does it matter, either way. He had a grievance about his property and went about things the wrong way.
The people who are most likely to have committed this crime are the Marxist-socialist Jew haters on the left. Among George Soros lackeys would be a good place to start looking.
Josh Shapiro is a scumbag, baby killing, POS democrat. He deserves whatever pain & misery comes his way.
Looks the inspiration of all those burning Tesla dealerships may have seeped over to the other side of the spectrum. They learned it from libs.
Do unto others and all that…
This is obviously bad on its face. It begs the question about security at the residence. I am looking for details about the severity of the fire, meaning was it a serious attempt or more of media stunt. For certain, don’t believe a thing you read for at least six months.
Absolutely despicable. I don’t care what politics the person has, this is vile.
Josh Shapiro is a scumbag, baby killing, POS democrat. He deserves whatever pain & misery comes his way.
And you are also one of those POS democrats, posing to make the sane side look bad.
[ ] Verify you are human.
So like those poor souls at Waco he deserves incineration?
…via “due process” of course.
No doubt a Palestinian supporter but then again, he has often expressed his hatred of Trump conservatives. No sympathy here from me. Mastriano could have been governor but he took the stupid position of no abortions allowed even in cases of rape and incest.
It’s only stupid position if you don’t believe or care that God created the aborted child, has asked that all His creations be given the chance to serve Him, and that there will be a great reward for those obey Him and a great punishment for those who don’t.
You need to live in the real world.
So you would force a woman raped or impregnated by incest to have that baby? Nice guy.
it’s funny how some people prioritize ethics over politics. something you clearly don’t have to worry about doing.
Mastriano was there to lose, Shapiro was selected, not elected
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