Calif. Man Set House on Fire, Killing Niece, 2, Nephew, 5, and His Own Dad: Police

Sergio Rivera-Vega is charged with murder and arson causing great bodily injury

A California man is accused of setting his relatives’ home on fire, killing his own father as well as his young niece and nephew.

Firefighters in Richmond, a Bay Area city in Contra Costa County, responding to a residential fire on 15th Street at about 8:16 p.m. on Aug. 18, notified that another fire had started just two houses away, Richmond Police wrote in a press release.

At the second house, they found a 47-year-old man, a 33-year-old woman, a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl with fire-related injuries. The man succumbed to his injuries at the scene while the boy died at the hospital, per the release…

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