6 Killed Including 4 Kids in Ohio Fire
January 24th, 2008, 1:59 am Hobby Shops
The fire killed 23-year-old daughter Jennifer Crawford, her daughters Raneija, 8; Jeannine, 5; Aleisha, 3; and 2-year-old son Brandon; and her mother, 46-year-old Carol Crawford, said Rick Jamrozik, an investigator with the Mahoning County Coroner’s office. Next-door neighbor Brenda Brown gestured to a hobby horse on its side in her front yard and said it belonged to the children. She was used to seeing them playing on it. “They were beautiful little kids, and it’s really sad,” she said. Michael Davis, who lived in the neighborhood, was charged with six counts of aggravated murder and six counts of aggravated arson, city police said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Davis had an attorney or knew the victims. Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Kelly said it looked as if some kind of accelerant had been used to start the fire on the front porch. The age of the house helped spread the fire. “This was old housing stock,” police Lt. Robin Lees said. “It was very old wood. The construction, to some extent, facilitated the spread of the fire.” Brown said that by the time firefighters arrived, the fire was too intense for them to get inside. “They put on their oxygen, they tried to get in, they come right back out,” she said. “So, they just kind of let it burn a minute. They didn’t really have very much choice.”
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