Jun 22, 2007 12:14 am US/Eastern
Criminal Complaint Reveals Details In Tragic Fire
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
Criminal complaints reveal new details into the tragic fire that killed five young children in Larimer on June 12.
Their mothers, Shakita Mangham and Furaha Love, both 25 years old, are facing charges, including involuntary manslaughter, for their deaths.
At 4 p.m. on June 11, Magham was watching the seven children while her friend, Love, went to work.
At 10:15 p.m. Love says she returned to the house. Thirty minutes later, Love says she and Mangham decided to go out for drinks.
Mangham said the kids were all inside, some of them sleeping, others watching television.
Initially the women told police they paid a neighborhood teenager $5 to keep an eye on the children, but both later admitted that wasn't true and that the kids were left alone.
The fire started at about 1:20 a.m. after investigators say the two 8-year-old boys were playing with matches.
Just after 1 a.m. the screams of children trapped in the fire were heard from the Winslow Street house.
The children were pronounced dead by 2:20 a.m.
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