A 19-year-old Hooper Bay man is facing murder and arson charges in connection to a fire earlier this month that killed a man inside a home in the Western Alaska village, authorities say.
Witnesses told investigators they saw Grant Hill fighting with a family member outside the home just before the fire began the afternoon of March 9, according to a sworn affidavit filed with charges by Alaska Trooper Steven Lantz, who is based in Hooper Bay. Hill later told the trooper that he started the fire, the affidavit said.
One man escaped through a back window of the home and was brought to the local clinic for evaluation and treatment, according to the affidavit. Hill went to the public safety office shortly after the fire and told a village police officer that he had used cardboard and a couch cushion to start the blaze, the affidavit said. Lantz interviewed Hill, who told him that he had been angry at the man who survived the fire “for making false accusations against him and striking him upon the head,” the trooper wrote.
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