2 who set Anchorage’s deadly Royal Suite Lodge fire sentenced to 24 years

Two people have been sentenced to decades in prison for starting a 2017 fire that killed three people as it tore through a West Anchorage apartment complex. The Alaska Department of Law said in a statement that Andrew Eknaty, 36, and Carleigh West, 35, were each sentenced Monday to 60 years and 20 days in prison, with 36 years suspended, in the deaths of Vivian Hall, Laura Kramer and Teuaililo Nua. The defendants, who were originally charged with three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault charges in May.

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