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Courier Press
March 19, 2014
Evansville police arrested 31-year-old Christopher Compton late Monday evening in connection with the fatal fire that killed a toddler and two adults and injured eight others on West Franklin Street Monday.
Compton is preliminarily charged with three counts of murder and four counts of arson with injury, both Class A felonies.
He is currently lodged without bond at Vanderburgh County Jail. An initial court appearance has not been set.
The names or ages of those killed or injured in the fire at 29 W. Franklin St. were not released Monday evening.
Four of the injured were residents at the two-story house, which had been converted to five apartments. All were taken initially to nearby Deaconess Hospital, and two were transported later in the evening by Life Flight to the Wishard Memorial Hospital Burn Center in Indianapolis. One of the injured residents was treated and released Monday evening.
According to Cullum, the three who remain hospitalized are expected to survive.
The other four injured were Evansville firefighters who suffered minor burns as they made an “aggressive interior attack” to bring the fire under control, according to Evansville Fire Department spokesman Bruce Woodward.
The fire was concentrated in the second floor of the wood-frame building. The three deceased were found in one of the two upstairs apartments.
Vanderburgh County Deputy Coroner Steve Lockyear said positive identification of the three killed may require the use of dental records, fingerprinting or DNA to confirm. Autopsies are scheduled for noon Tuesday.
