KOMO NEWS, SEATTLE, WA - Police arrested a father Tuesday for arson and murder in connection to a South Seattle fire that killed his teenage son. Authorities arrested Mohamed Abdi, 38, on suspicion of murder and arson for an early morning Jan. 22 fire at a home in the 9300 block of 39th Ave. South. Firefighters arrived to find four people who had made it out immediately report there was a fifth person still inside the home. Firefighters raced inside and found the 15-year-old boy gravely injured inside a second-story bedroom and carried him outside as flames raced up the stairwell. The teen died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle four days later. A private insurance company said there were no signs of electrical failure, electrical combustion or accidental combustion that caused the fire. Visit komonews.com for more on this story.
Father arrested for murder, arson in South Seattle house fire that killed teenage son
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