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2-year-old among 3 dead after residential explosion and fire
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Original Publication Date: January 2, 2020 4:58AM
Publication Updated: April 19, 2025 4:53AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A 2-year-old girl and two adults were found dead after an explosion ignited a fire at an Ohio home, police said Thursday.
The cause of Wednesday evening’s blast in a neighbourhood several miles southeast of downtown Columbus remains unclear, so homicide detectives are investigating, authorities said.
“They’ll kind of work with us on this, just to make sure that these fatalities are solely related to an accidental fire and not something else and the fire is to hide that,” Battalion Chief Steve Martin of the Columbus Division of Fire told WCMH-TV.
Neighbours reported a loud boom that shook homes nearby.
The bodies of Nerissa Distin, 33, Gary Morris, 42, and the child were found inside the scorched two-story house, police said. They didn’t immediately release the girl’s name.
Two other children lived at the home but weren’t there at the time, firefighters said.
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