(10-13-2017, 02:57 PM)Takedakai Wrote: Incredibly sad story.  Loss of life is tragic especially for someone so young with so much to look forward to.

If unintended like the story seems to indicate the man will have to live with the fact that his actions were the cause of the death and that has to be very hard.

As for the charges, I am absolutely no legal expert but there are probably lots of reasons why a DA is pursuing it early in an investigation as that is probably the maximum charge that could be brought for the situation. It would be their responsibility to investigate the worst possible situation where the man knew his actions were going to start a fire and left it on purpose rather than just falling asleep and causing a negligent death.  That may or may not be hard to prove.

Throughout the pre-trail process they will decide if they are going to pursue that charge or a lesser charge at a trial depending on how the evidence lines up.

Sad stuff all around.

I did not expect the suspect to be charged of anything because police knew soon enough it was cooking related. Once my sister went up to her room while baking cookies and forgot about it. My dad said the S word when smoke reached the kitchen table. No problem: just turn the oven off, open all of the windows, and put out the flames on the burnt cookies (all of them were on fire). I was thinking about this when I read about the cause of the fire and why it ruined the entire house because it seemed to be exactly the same mistake. But his chances of failing the drug test are high IMO. At least my sister made cookies long before her bedtime, which is a critical difference.

The city sheriff is pursuing it. No reports mention a district attorney. Of course I don't know everything they are doing because I no longer live in Westerville. What lesser charges are options in the case?

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(10-13-2017, 03:04 PM)Frailbones Wrote:

(10-13-2017, 02:58 PM)JaguarsWoman Wrote: I can understand that. Cops did not find anything suspicious while firefighters and EMTs were there, so the only reason they opened an investigation is it resulted in a fatality. But the possibility makes me wonder about his whereabouts and if there was too much beer in the refrigerator. And yes, the lack of a working smoke detector made it much worse.

The amount of beer left in the fridge has nothing to do with what happened. You can never have too much beer in your fridge.

LOL Actually it does. One can of beer is not enough to get a person drunk, right? He could have had a full case or bottle.

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