One of the brothers suspected of carrying out a series of synagogue arsons in Sacramento last month is denying he was involved in the incidents. James Tyler Williams, who is being jailed along with his brother, Benjamin Matthew Williams, in connection with the murder of a gay couple, made his comments to the Redding Record Searchlight, a northern California newspaper.
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