Charges of murder were brought against two 13-year-old boyssuspected of arson in the library in Central California, which killed two firefighters.
As told in police, the teenagers were arrested after they were seen fleeing from the city library PortervilleI soon after on Tuesday, 18 February, there broke out a fire.
According to the publication Visalia Times Delta, last Friday, the Tulare County Prosecutor’s office filed two murder charges and accusations of arson. The students denied the allegations, they remain in prison. Their names were not disclosed because they are minors. They must be brought before the juvenile court at the first meeting on March 11.
Fire – 25-year-old Patrick Jones and 35-year-old Raymond Figueroa – was killed when he fought the flames that engulfed the library Porterville, located about 50 miles (79 kilometers) North of Bakersfield in the valley of San Joaquin.
According to the captain of local fire protection Joan Behar, the library was built in 1953 were not equipped with sprinklers.
In California children under the age of 14 cannot be tried as adults, even if they are accused of serious and violent crimes such as murder.
