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| Denver teen, 16, who set fire to wrong home and burned five innocent family members alive in revenge... |
| 2024-05-21 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …plot to retrieve stolen iPhone is jailed
The leader of a teenage gang that incinerated two babies and three adults after targeting the wrong Colorado home in revenge for an iPhone theft will serve 60 years in jail. Lawyers for Kevin Bui, 20, accepted a plea deal after he admitted torching the Denver home where eight innocent people were sleeping on an August night in 2020. Bui and two accomplices broke into the Green Valley Ranch home and doused the walls with gasoline before setting it alight and leaving the family to its fate. Three people jumped to safety from a second-story window, but the bodies of Djibril Diol, his wife Adja, 23, their 21-month-old daughter, Khadija, along with Diol's sister Hassan and her six-month-old daughter, Hawa, were found huddled together by the front door. Bui, and his friends Gavin Seymour, 16, and Dillon Siebert, 14, had spent weeks planning the attack on the home. Bui had wrongly identified it after using the 'Find My iPhone' app to track the location of his stolen device to the family's neighborhood. They bought hockey-style masks from a costume store and were recorded in ghostly surveillance footage approaching the house laden with cans of gasoline on the night of the fire. Denver police officer Gordon King was among the first on the scene and heard someone trying to unlock the front door from inside with a keypad. 'Officer King kicked in the front door but was forced away from the door by the extreme heat,' the arrest warrant for Seymour recorded. 'Officer King was able to see a small human body approximately three feet inside of the front door. 'As Officer King attempted to get the person out it was apparent that the person was not alive and Officer King was forced back by the extreme heat of the fire.' Investigators had little to go on until they ordered Google to hand over information on anyone who had searched online for the Truckee Street address in the two weeks before the fire. The trio were arrested in January 2021 and charged with crimes including first-degree murder with extreme indifference, attempted murder with extreme indifference, burglary and assault with a deadly weapon. Siebert was sentenced in February 2023 to ten years behind bars for his role in the crime. Seymour pleaded guilty to second degree murder in March and was jailed for 40 years followed by five years of mandatory parole. Bui's legal team announced a deal with the Denver District Attorney's Office on Friday in which he agreed to 60 years in a state correctional facility in exchange for the DA dropping an additional 60 criminal charges. Bui's father, Thuan Bui, was in court to see the plea deal announced, telling reporters: 'We accept it.' The murdered family were originally from Senegal and Diol had graduated in 2018 from Colorado State University with a degree in civil engineering. Diol was working for Kiewit construction, and his family were staying with friends at the house until they could get a home of their own. |
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