Police say a recent fire at a Logan Avenue convenience store is being investigated as arson, though they have not confirmed whether it is connected to a series of extortion-related attacks targeting local businesses.

The blaze, which occurred early on Oct. 28 and was captured on video that later circulated on social media, shows two people entering Logan Convenience at 1521 Logan Ave. shortly after 1 a.m. One suspect appears to point a gun at the store clerk while the other pours liquid from a gas can across the floor.

Moments later, the armed suspect escorts the clerk out of the building as flames consume the one-and-a-half-storey structure — a building constructed in 1906 that once housed a branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

The attack is the latest in a series of inc

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