Several victims said at a hearing Monday that the sentence was too short to account for the trauma caused by the 2017 blaze.
Andrew Eknaty and Carleigh West attend a sentencing hearing on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 where Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted a plea agreement that will send each of them to prison for 24 years for their role in causing the deaths of three people in a 2017 apartment fire.
In surveillance footage, Eknaty was seen returning to the car a few minutes later and trying to throw snow on top of the fire in an attempt to put it out, the statement said. McKay said he believes Eknaty and West had no intention of harming anyone, but rather made “a really stupid decision” that resulted in tragedy.
Honilyn Holder tied an electrical cord to a hanger and climbed down to a lower window ledge with their 5-year-old son before tossing him to someone below, her husband said. He said he then tossed their 3-year-old daughter from the window and a police officer caught her three stories below. pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter, first-degree assault and criminally negligent burning in April
Kramer was flown to a Seattle hospital after the fire and died there nine days later, her daughter said. It took officials 12 days after the fire to find her family, she said.
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