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Virginia-The adult son of a women’ killed in a fire and causing serious injuries to a 14 year old girl has been detained in Florida.
Sources close to the investigation say Howard Baker, 41 was taken into custody after police responded to an attempted arm robbery of a man walking near Third Street in St Petersburg. A criminal record check revealed he is wanted in by Virginia authorities.
A witness told investigators she saw Lamont Baker position a heater near a curtain in a bedroom and he told her of his intent to burn the house down after his mother refused to give him money for drugs resulting in the death of his mother. A fourteen year old child remains hospitalized more a week after the incident.
Home destroyed by firePhoto byDave HoefleronUnsplash
“My slster was a good woman who struggled to raise her grandchildren with very little’, said Beaulla Washburn. She went on to say the family is ashamed to beg ,however need help to lay their sister to rest. ” We have help these children .