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Danozjna Williams, the mother of three children who died in a house fire on East 26th Street, has been charged with third\u2011degree homicide, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, and recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n
Erie County District Attorney Elizabeth Hirz announced the charges on May 6, shortly after 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Erie Police Detective James Langdon and Detective Sergeant Dave Madurski determined that Williams allegedly left her children unsupervised for an extended period while she facilitated a drug transaction.<\/p>\n
While the children were home alone, a fire broke out, trapping them inside the residence. The victims were five years old, three years old, and five months old.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a heartbreaking, but completely preventable tragedy,\u201d District Attorney Hirz said. \u201cThe evidence shows these young children were left without supervision in a situation where they needed their mother to protect them and keep them safe. That duty was abandoned, with devastating consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing. All charges are allegations, and Williams is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danozjna Williams, the mother of three children who died in a house fire on East 26th Street, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46633,82876,136,138,137,9521,60142],"class_list":["post-185664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-child-death","tag-danozjna-williams","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-fire","tag-homicide-charges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}