Pennsylvania Intruder Faced Little Resistance As Gov. Josh Shapiro And His Family Slept

The arsonist who broke into the Pennsylvania governor's residence while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his extended family slept upstairs on the first night of Passover encountered little resistance as he scaled a security fence, smashed windows with a hammer, ignited two Molotov cocktails and crawled inside before slipping off into the night minutes later.

That suggests multiple security failures, according to a former FBI agent who wondered why burglar alarms, motion detectors and other devices did not thwart the intruder sooner.

"He never should have gotten over the fence. He never should have gotten across the yard and to the house. He never should have broken the window. He never should have gotten inside," said retired FBI Special Agent J.J. Klaver, now a security consultant.

The arson early Sunday occurred just hours after Shapiro hosted a Seder for his family and members of the Jewish community . No one was injured, but the fire caused, by one official's estimate, millions of dollars in damage.

"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't jarring, scary to see that in the light of day, to see the areas where we'd either make memories privately up in the residence with our kids -- hanging out, laughing, enjoying ourselves - or in the more public spaces where we've been able to welcome so many people to our home," Shapiro said Thursday. "But we're going to rebuild from that. We're going to be stronger."