{"id":179265,"date":"2026-03-30T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:36:07","slug":"nyc-fire-that-killed-child-3-others-in-problem-plagued-building-now-a-homicide-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179265\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC fire that killed child, 3 others in problem-plagued building now a homicide: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

A vicious fire <\/a>inside a violation-plagued Queens building<\/a> that killed four people \u2014 including a toddler \u2014 is now being investigated as a homicide, cops said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The deaths of four people in the March 16 blaze that tore through 132-05 Avery Ave. in Flushing were deemed a homicide by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n

The deaths of four people in the March 16 blaze that tore through 132-05 Avery Ave. are now being looked into as a homicide, the NYPD said. FDNY<\/p>\n

Both the police and fire department\u2019s <\/a>investigations into the blaze remain ongoing, and there are no arrests at this time, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The inferno incinerated the three-story Queens apartment building, killing 3-year-old Sihan Yang, 50-year-old Chengri Cui, and two other victims who have yet to be identified, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both the police and fire department\u2019s investigations into the blaze remain ongoing, and there are no arrests at this time, officials said.\u00a0 Citizen<\/p>\n

Department of Buildings records show a history of 55 violations <\/a>at the property going back to at least 1998, with 16 violations \u2013 many relating to illegal apartment conversions \u2013 having still been open when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n

The building had 16 open Department of Building violations when the fire broke out, records show. Citizen<\/p>\n

A violation from 2003 alleges that the residency had been altered to include more than the two-family dwelling had allowed. That violation was still open 23 years later, even after the building had changed hands, DOB records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A visit from inspectors in August 2020 found that the legal two-family dwelling had been illegally converted to include five single-resident occupancies and nine additional beds, according to a DOB complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The inspector had ordered the building\u2019s second and third floors to be vacated, an order that was still in place at the time of the fire, records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While some violations relating to the August 2020 inspection had been resolved, several others were still open six years later when the fire blazed through the building, DOB records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vicious fire inside a violation-plagued Queens building that killed four people \u2014 including a toddler \u2014 is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,544,1027,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,58,44720],"class_list":["post-179265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-us-news","tag-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179265","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=179265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}