{"id":190093,"date":"2026-04-08T21:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:44:34","slug":"man-38-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-queens-arson-fire-that-killed-4-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190093\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 38, arrested, charged with murder in Queens arson fire that killed 4: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Amatitla, 38, was charged with murder, assault, arson and petit larceny in the deadly fire that erupted on March 16, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD identified 50-year-old Chengri Cui and 3-year-old Sihan Yang as two of the four people killed in the Flushing fire. The identities of the remaining two victims, a 61-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man, are being withheld until their families are notified of their deaths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Firefighters battle a four-alarm fire on College Point Boulevard in Queens on Monday.\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P54-20260316-132740.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8742735\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed, including a child, after a four-alarm fire broke out inside a two story residence on College Point Boulevard in Queens on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s medical examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/27\/four-fire-deaths-illegally-subdivided-queens-home-ruled-homicide-medical-examiner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled the four deaths a homicide<\/a> on March 27. The fire broke out around 12:30 p.m. in a third-floor apartment on Avery Ave. near College Point Blvd. occupied by as many as a dozen squatters, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roman Amatitla, 38, was charged with murder, assault, arson and petit larceny in the deadly fire that erupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-190093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190093","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=190093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}