A man already awaiting trial on charges that he tried to kill a police officer with the officer’s own weapon is now accused of setting someone’s house on fire.

Allen Dwight Horton, 24, is charged with second-degree arson, said Calera Police Chief David Hyche.

Police and firefighters responded to a burning home in the 1800 block of Fourth Avenue in Calera on March 20. Hyche said investigators determined the fire was deliberately set and identified Horton as the suspect.

Horton was arrested on the arson charge Tuesday and remains held in the Shelby County Jail. At the time the charges were filed, Hyche said, Horton was already in the jail from a March 24 arrest for a domestic violence – harassing communications charge.

Authorities are seeking to revoke his bond.

Horton was arrested in 2021, and indicted in 2022, after authorities said he assaulted a police officer and a paramedic.

That incident happened Saturday, May 8, 2021, in Columbiana, according to court records made public Wednesday. The officer had been called to a report of a person acting erratically, Columbiana Police Chief Jeff Bowers said at the time. Horton, police said, was not committing any crime so the officer was giving him a ride to his grandmother’s house.

Charging documents against Horton said the man was in the back of a Columbiana Police Department cruiser when the officer noticed the back door was not closed properly.

The officer pulled over to properly close the door, and that’s when Horton allegedly reached though the open plexiglass window that serves as a barrier between the cruiser’s front and back seats and grabbed the officer’s back-up weapon.

When the officer opened the opened the back door, records state, Horton pointed the Glock handgun at the officer and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed.

Because Horton was not under arrest, he was not handcuffed, and the shield was open.

Horton was also charged with second-degree assault after he reportedly punched a paramedic in the face, knocking the paramedic to the ground.

A trial date in the Columbiana case has not yet been set.