A Phoenix Police Department spokesperson announced that 26-year-old Darren William Beach Jr. was booked into the jail facility in Phoenix Arizona on Friday 30 July 2017 on suspicion of arson of an occupied structure. The Phoenix Fire Department later released a security video clearly showing a man later identified as Darren William Beach Jr. pouring liquid on the floors, hallways, in the offices, and on materials insid the one.n.ten LGBTQ Youth Center on 12 July 2017 with the man in the video then very quickly stepping outside just before the first room area burst into flames. Employees at the one.n.ten youth center stated that Darren William Beach Jr. was at one time a participant in the one.n.ten program they worked at, but that Darren had "aged out" of his eligibility to be at the youth center when he reached the age of 25 [twenty five] years old. 

On July 12, 2017 around 11:00 a.m. a typical bright and sunny day in Phoenix, Arizona — 26-year-old Darren William Beach Jr. is captured on security camera footage walking up from the street and down the driveway to the former location of the one.n.ten local LGBTQ youth center carrying a bright red plastic gasoline container.

Beach had used the center’s services since 2013, dropping in and out of its programs until eventually aging out of his eligibilty to be in the program when he reached the age of 25 [twenty five years old]. The arson attack fire completely destroyed the center's contents and the building structure. The organization that running the center known locally to youth as one•n•ten lost many thousands of dollars in electronic equipment, food, supplies, and camping equipment. The organization was forced to abandon the building and move to a temporary location at the Parsons Center for Health and Wellness in downtown Phoenix Arizona in order to continue assisting at-risk local and visiting LGBTQ youth in Phoenix Arizona.

As soon as center’s staff members saw Beach Jr.’s face in the security video evidence, Darren William Beach Jr. was recognized immediately leaving the staff members feeling “total shock” in what they saw.

“This news hurts,” the center’s executive director Linda Elliott stated. “Obviously this young man has issues and needs help. Someone that you’ve provided services to and helped out, you just would not expect to come back to your center and do this sort of thing.”

Fortunately, the one.n.ten LGBTQ Youth Center in Phoenix had already begun construction on a new center which was completed in  September of 2017. However, the organization pushed an online fundraising campaign to help restore the lost items, materials, and to provide additional funds for the program.