BABY-Srrring Mom Sees RVE KIDS DIE in BLAZE
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I, Stereo, Crulaa, Tilt andau Roof. $ 0 2 0 5 T. OEAN PMX Firefighters carry the bodies of five children from a burned-out apartment in Willimantic Friday. AP photo B, Auto, AC, PS, PB, oat & Or. Locka, Sun * 4 8 9 5 WSKCTMIM Cops probe woman’s death Cyl., 8 Spd., Stereo Caaa., '«■ * 4 9 9 5 'MAGAZINE PULLOUT RCTION Missing for severai days ... page 3 TRUCKS V.EUAMNO ta pickup, V8, Auto, AC, P. WIndowa, and Dr. itorao Caaa, Tilt Wheal, iontrd, S A A A e * 9 9 9 9 V. niETSIDE PICKUP I, Auto, PS, PB, Tinted ID Suap. a. * 1 0 , 9 9 5 BJIMIRY4X4 Iranda, V>8, Auto, AC, PS, t • I I 4 » t H 'iAI.deAA4l.t6A.iA* AA ■ 4 t A - A * * A AAiek. 6 6 • >. 4 4 A tNAPU 6y liuee BeeHl* Brawl with shots, then a homicide: ‘Just another night in the proJect’ Five children die in Willimantic fire WILLIMAN’ITC (AP) — Five young children left alone in an apartment perished in an intense fire NEW HAVEN (AP) - There was Hospital at 3 a m. Wednesday. Eric She said she only leaves her Friday as the mother of three of them watched a brawl with shots fired one day this Green, 22, was charged later that apartment to go to her part-time helplessly from outside, authorities said. week at the Quinnipiac Tenace day in the stabbing, held on $100,(M)0 job. The woman, who was babysitting for her children Housing Project and then, aiwut a bond and has a March 2 court date. Her apartment has been broken and the children of two other women, said she had just half-hour later, a homicide. “ This could have been any night into twice, and 10 days ago she was ^ o n e to fetch a car jack and returned to find her But to one woman who heard here,” ' the woman told the New slashed under her right temple by a apartment engulfed in flames, according to Fire Chief some of the victim’s last words, it Haven Register. “ You don’t have to knife-wielding teen-ager as she John H. Walsh. was just another night in the die to go to hell — just move to went across the street to get her The woman, whose identity was not released, project. Downing Street. It’s madness.” son. A 5-year-old boy was also watched in horror as firefighters tried unsuccessfully Kevin Lee Lewis, 23, was stabbed Of the city’s 32 housing projects, stabbed then. to get into the two-story apartment, located on one in the hallway of one of the project Quinnipiac Terrace and the Far- Recently, a neighbor down the comer of an L-shaped, eight-unit building in a public buildings. With his hands clutching num complex have the most hall used a knife to fend off a man housing complex. at his chest, Lewis stumbled up the stabbings, assaults and robberies, trying to break into her apartment. “ I want my babies, I just want my babies,” she hill to a friend’s apartment at said Ivan M. Pour, deputy director The woman said a little boy came screamed as firefighters battled the blaze. another project building. of the New Haven Housing up to her the other day and said he Three were found in an upstairs bedroom two were ’The woman, watching from her Authority. was hungry. found in a nearby bathroom, Walsh said. second-story window, said she saw Pour said his agency is finan “ I said. ’What’s the matter, An autopsy showed the three girls and two boys all ‘This tire hatched a mosquito that Lewis go into the first-floor cially strapped and all the officials baby?’ ’Then I saw his mother was died of smoke inhalation, a spokesman for the chief bit John Waynel" hallway. can do at Quinnipiac is go to smoking the pipe and wasn’t going state medical examiner’s office said. “ I heard pounding on the door tenants’ association meetings and to cook for him that night. So I fed The children were identified as Austin Soundara. 2, and (someone) saying. ’ Man. make only the most essential him.” and his 1-year-old twin sisters. Soudachanh N. and please don’t let me die here.’ The repairs. ' She said the mother was smoking Soudavanh K. Soundara. The other Victims were Connecticat Weather next thing I saw was the The Downing Street woman. 28. crack. identified as 1-year-old Roger Lavalle. 1. and Tabitha ambulance.’’ refused to give her name to the “ There’s not a night when you Orlacchio, 2. Lewis died of a single stab wound newspaper. She said she is single don’t see boys hanging at that stoop The fire apparently began near a couch in the to the chest at Yale-New Haven and the mother of a 9-year-old boy. selling the crack.” the woman said. first-floor living room, Willimantic Fire Marshal Today wili be clear and cold in the morning, with Richard A. Miller said. temperatures rising in the afternoon to near 40. An electric space-heater was located about 5 feet Sunday will see more of the same. Meanwhile, a from the couch, but Miller declined to speculate on the storm brewing in the Midwest could be headed our Wrong man winds up in the brig cause of the fire, which also slightly damaged a way. downstairs bedroom in an an adjacent apartment. CHICAGO (AP) — A 27-year-old When an Illinois state trooper State and local fire officials sifted through the gutted, grocery clerk spent 24 hours in a stopped Pulliam late Monday for charred interior of the apartment Friday night. The Connecticut Department of Environmental AP photo naval brig, was forced to exercise speeding and ran a computer Soot-covered toys and stuffed animals lay scattered Protection says the air quality was good on Friday and and had his hair cut and mustache check, the officer found Pulliam fit outside the apartment’s rear entrance. Curious was expected to be good through Monday. Fire swept an apartment in this iow- shaved after being charged with most of the particulars listed on the neighbors m ill^ around as investigators went atout injuries were reported, and investigators desertion — until officials learned Navy’s arrest warrant. their work.; income housing project in Wiliimantic were seeking the cause of the biaze. he had never been in the Navy. There were discrepancies — “ I ’ve never seen anything like this,” Walsh said. Friday, kiiling five chiidren. No other Tommy Darryl Pulliam’s epi Pulliam was an inch taller, 30 “ I ’ve responded to fatalities, but nothing with five Lottery Winners sode of mistaken identity began pounds heavier and had no visible children. It’s devastating.” with a routine traffic stop and took scar on his forehead — but ’The names of the victims were being withheld the alarm and the fire was brought under control in little about her. him on a trip through a bureacratic apparently not enough for Pulliam pending positive identification. The names of the three about 30 minutes, Walsh said. ’The apartment building is one of about 30 buildings in maze he said looked endless. to persuade the state trooper and mothers, who were all taken to Windham Memorial Raphael Maldonado, a neighbor, said he and a friend Nathan Hale Terrace, owned by the Willimantic Connecticut daily Friday: 460. Play Four: TOSS. “ I never felt so helpless in my officers at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital, were also withheld. tried to get into the burning apartment, but were Housing Authority, said Robert Murphy, a housing Connecticut “ Lotto" Friday: 1,4,0,14.10, S3. life,” Pulliam said Friday. “ I kept ’Training Base that he had never The fire was reported at 11:36 a.m., although Walsh turned back by the heat and smoke. authority official. saying to anyone and everyone, served in the U.S. Navy. said it likely was burning for some time before that. “ We tried — too much smoke,” said Maldonado, his T m innocent,’ and thinking this The state trooper turned Pulliam Walsh said it was unclear how long the mother of face streaked with ash. “ We had to get out of the The apartment was equipped with smoke detectors nightmare is going to end soon.