‘An act of mass murder’: Prosecutors say NYC arson suspect set deadly fire ‘to get his rage out’

New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The accused Queens arsonist arrested for killing four strangers, including a 3-year-old girl, set the fire randomly to get out his anger over being fired that day — and then sat on the curb and sipped a stolen beer as he watched panicked victims jumping out windows, prosecutors said Thursday.

One of Roman Amatitla’s victims died not from smoke or burns but from blunt-force injuries he suffered when he jumped from the burning building targeted at random on Avery Ave. near College Point Blvd. in Flushing in a desperate attempt to escape, prosecutors said…

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