NY Daily News – January 16, 2015
by Joseph Stepansky
A 61-year-old man found dead in an early morning inferno in a Brooklyn apartment building in October was murdered, a police source said Wednesday. Firefighters pulled Steven Dodson from the flames of the first-floor apartment where he lived on Herkimer St. near Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 3 a.m. on Oct. 2, Fire Department sources said.
Investigators later determined an accelerant was used to start the flames and there was evidence that Dodson may have been dead before the fire started, a police source said Wednesday.
The death was ruled a homicide on Jan. 4, the source said.
The motive behind the killing was not immediately clear, and police said there were no identified suspects in the case.
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