Fatal DC fire that killed 9-year-old referred for criminal investigation, Mayor Bowser says
After a weekend house fire killed a 9-year-old boy, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is referring the case for a criminal investigation, saying the property was an unlicensed rental.
The fire broke out in a two-story row house in the 700 block of Kennedy Street NW on Sunday morning. Fire crews battled the flames in the heat, and pulled out 9-year-old Yafety Solomon and a man, both of whom died from their injuries.