{"id":115796,"date":"2026-01-29T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:32:20","slug":"homeless-man-charged-with-murder-after-dismantling-stove-in-bronx-fire-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115796\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man charged with murder after dismantling stove in Bronx fire, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"1c5aw\">A Bronx man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fatal fire at a NYCHA housing complex that killed one person and left another in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b8cr7\">Samuel Calderon, 55, who is homeless, was charged with murder, manslaughter and other offenses, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2t263\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/fdny-4-alarm-fire-kills-one-injures-more-than-a-dozen-in-bronx-high-rise\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fire<\/a> broke out just after midnight on Saturday at the Boston Secor Houses on Bivona Street in the Bronx, authorities said. Firefighters responding to a 911 call found two men unconscious and unresponsive inside the building, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a4oqt\">Ronald McCallister, 60, a resident of the building, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. A 37-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. Five other people were hospitalized in stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"98k4\">Police said Calderon was dismantling a stove, which caused a gas leak that led to the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"81oha\">Investigators are still determining a motive, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9ek17\">Calderon had not yet been assigned an attorney as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fatal fire at a NYCHA housing complex that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-115796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}