Twitch streamer’s car set on fire by alleged stalker
A New York man reportedly drove hundreds of miles to the Ohio home of Twitch streamer Kylee Carter and set fire to her car, a Jaguar F-Type. Farhan Jami, 28, was arrested nearby in mid-May when the incident happened; he remains in Ohio custody pending a grand jury trial for felony aggravated assault, according to court documents and an arrest report obtained by Polygon.
Carter is a popular 25 year old streamer who goes online through justfoxii and plays games like Fortnite while talking to viewers in the chat. She has 593,000 followers on Twitch and 127,000 on Instagram. This was reported by a local Fox affiliate the details of the arson attack in early June after the incident occurred on May 16.
Carter has not streamed on Twitch and has been quiet on social media since the incident. On Tuesday, she published a four-minute YouTube video detailing the arson attack, alongside home security footage of a man, allegedly Jami, starting a fire that engulfed the entire hood of the car. Carter was not home at the time of the incident, but her mother and animals were in the house.
The footage shows a person, wearing a mask, placing what appears to be a brick and a bucket on the hood of the car before lighting something in the bucket. The car catches fire before spreading to an “adjacent fence” and the house, according to an indictment. Carter said in her YouTube video that a fire crew arrived quickly and extinguished the fence before it spread further.
Carter’s mother called 911 at 2:26 a.m. local time, and police and firefighters were on the scene within 10 minutes, according to Polygon’s 911 number. Her mother told police that Carter is a popular video game streamer and that the incident may have been perpetrated by a stalker; she could see flames but was afraid to go outside in case the person was still there. Jami was found “in the vicinity” and taken into custody “after the investigation was completed,” the indictment said. “Jami appeared to be wearing consistent clothing in the video and matched the suspect in the video,” he claimed. “He was close by [sic] articles related to the first crime scene.”
“We’ve all been traumatized in ways I’ll never be able to describe, but I’m just glad everyone is safe,” Carter said in the YouTube video. “That is the most important thing for me. I never thought when I started streaming in 2015 that something like this would ever happen to me.
Carter did not respond to Polygon’s request for comment. Jami remains in custody in Ohio; the case has been assigned to a grand jury. There are no court dates listed.