Overview
- Lontray Clark, 23, faces four first-degree murder charges along with counts of aggravated arson, attempted first-degree murder and residential arson.
- He is scheduled to appear at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse today for a detention hearing ahead of trial.
- A joint Chicago police and ATF investigation found that Molotov cocktails thrown after a domestic dispute ignited the early-morning blaze.
- The June 26 fire at a three-story building in the Austin neighborhood killed a 5-year-old boy, two women and 76-year-old newspaper editor Brad Cummings.
- The American Red Cross says the blaze displaced more than two dozen people from the 5200 block of West North Avenue.