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The torching of a store owned by an Iraqi businessman was not racially motivated as first believed, Sheriff’s Department investigators said Wednesday.
Instead, the arson stemmed from a long-running personal dispute between the store’s manager and the key suspect in the case, Dr. Douglas Wofford, 41, a Carlsbad chiropractor, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Conrad Grayson of the arson and bomb squad.
Swastikas spray-painted on the storefront shortly before the fire led investigators to assume a racial motive at first, Grayson said.
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