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QUEENS – The NYPD<\/a> has arrested a suspect<\/a> accused of setting a fire at a Queens<\/a> apartment building that killed four people last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n Queens fire suspect arrested <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Police arrested 38-year-old Roman Amatitla on Wednesday, April 8. Amatitla has been charged with murder, arson, assault and petit larceny in connection with the fire.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The fire happened on March 16 at an apartment building on Avery Avenue in Flushing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Firefighters responded to the building to find heavy flames. Crews reported seeing three people jump from an upper floor as the flames spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Queens fire that killed 4 ruled a homicide: Police<\/a><\/p>\n After the fire was put out, firefighters found three people, a 3-year-old girl, a 50-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, dead inside. Paramedics also brought a 63-year-old man to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later ruled the fire a homicide.<\/p>\n Two victims identified <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n So far, two of the four victims have been identified. Three-year-old Sihan Yang and 50-year-old Chengri Cui were among those found dead in the building.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Officials have not released the identities of the other two victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Fire Marshal is still working to determine the exact cause of the fire.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Amatitla is being held without bail.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from the NYPD and previous FOX 5 NY reports.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS – The NYPD has arrested a suspect accused of setting a fire at a Queens apartment building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-191359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191359","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=191359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/romanamatitla.jpg\")
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