15-Year-Old Canandaigua Girl Arrested for Deadly Fire in New York City

An unnamed 15-year-old girl from Canandaigua is under arrest in New York City on charges she set a deadly fire.

Authorities tell media outlets the girl is a chronic runaway from a group home and used an accelerant to set the fire January 29th in the Bronx.

Investigators say she had a dispute with a person living in a rooming house, but had no connection to the man who died.

She is charged with murder, assault, arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

She is being held without bail.


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