Samuel Calderon, 55, is accused of killing Ronald McCallister, 60, a resident of the 3475 Bivona Ave. building where a gas explosion sparked a four-alarm fire just after midnight Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sources tell News 12 Calderon stole a stove, planning to sell it for drug money. He dismantled the stove, wheeled it down a hallway and blocked its gas pipe with a blanket. Gas quickly spread, leading to the explosion.<\/p>\n
Calderon violated an order of protection held by his ex-girlfriend, a former resident, by entering the building, resulting in a contempt charge. Sources say his ex-girlfriend was staying at a domestic violence shelter at the time of the inferno.<\/p>\n
Firefighters also discovered a 37-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive. EMS pronounced McCallister dead at the scene and took the man to the hospital, where he is fighting for his life.<\/p>\n
The FDNY says an additional 13 people were hurt in the blaze, including a firefighter.<\/p>\n
Officers walked Calderon out of the 47th Precinct Wednesday evening, and he appeared bewildered. When questioned about the deadly event, he responded, \u201cGod bless y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calderon also faces murder, manslaughter, assault, burglary, petit larceny and harassment charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Calderon, 55, is accused of killing Ronald McCallister, 60, a resident of the 3475 Bivona Ave. building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,7403,51307,18624,1027,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-115807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-deadly-fire","tag-eastchester","tag-explosion","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115807","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=115807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}