UPDATE: An early morning house fire on Monday killed a Lodi resident, authorities confirmed.
The fire broke out in the rear of the two-story Westminster Place home shortly before 6 a.m., apparently from a candle left burning, and quickly went to two alarms.
Four residents and two guests reportedly made it out safely. Two were treated for minor injuries, responders said.
A Wallington firefighter later found the body of 25-year-old Ezequiel Gonzalez, who family friends said lived there with his mother, her fiancé and his daughter.
A resident said she didn’t know why he “didn’t jump out the window” to the roof next door.
A Franklin Lakes man charged with setting fire to Most Blessed Sacrament Church in December 2019 was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Monday.
During the 2-1/2-hour hearing before Judge Robert Vinci, psychiatrist Steven Simring characterized James Mayers as religiously preoccupied and said he was hoping to reach religious purity by setting fire to the church without expecting its complete destruction.
After the hearing in Superior Court in Bergen County, Mayers, 27, was ordered committed to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains for what remains of an estimated 30-year sentence on combined charges of first-degree aggravated arson and third-degree burglary. He will remain under court supervision until December 2049.
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