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DENVER Two of the three teenagers arrested in connection with a house fire in Denver that killed a family of five, including a former Summit County resident, have been charged as adults, prosecutors said Tuesday, Feb. 2.
Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, both 16, were charged with 60 felony counts, including first-degree murder, attempted murder, arson and burglary in the Aug. 5 fire that killed former Silverthorne resident Djibril Diol. Diol graduated from Colorado Mountain College in Summit County in 2015 with an associate of science degree in physics. He immigrated to the U.S. from the West African country of Senegal in 2012.
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Djibril Diol poses for a photo before graduating from Colorado Mountain College in Summit County in 2015. He and his family were killed in an August 2020 house fire in Denver. Police believe the fire was intentionally set.
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Authorities announced Friday that a fourth person has been arrested as a result of the investigation into a Denver fire that killed five people in August, including a former Summit County resident.
Tanya Bui, 23, has been charged with marijuana possession and intent to distribute, as well as possession of a firearm for the purpose of drug trafficking.
Pipe bombs placed at RNC, DNC night before Capitol riot; feds up reward to $100,000 Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY UP NEXT
Federal authorities believe that pipe bombs discovered at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees during the Capitol riots were placed there on the night before the siege.
The FBI, in a new appeal for public assistance Friday, released images of a unidentified suspect dressed in a gray hoodie, distinctive Nike shoes and carrying a backpack who is believed to have delivered the live explosives to the locations between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5.
In an attempt to inject new urgency in the search for the suspect, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives upped a reward for information in the case from $75,000 to $100,000. Prominently featured in the FBI appeal are images of the suspect s footwear, described as Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes in yellow, black, and gray.
shooting of an off-duty deputy has been arrested, Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead announced Thursday.
Jerry JRocc Lamont Harris Jr. of Durham, had been wanted in connection with the November 14 shooting. He was found in a home in the 2400 block of Vesson Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. and was taken into custody without incident, the sheriff said.
Harris, 26, was identified by investigators as a suspect more than two months ago and had been on Durham s Most Wanted list ever since. At the time of the shooting, Harris was on federal probation and had previously been arrested multiple times for a variety of offenses in Durham County.