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The man who set a fire at a Westwood apartment building two years ago that killed a 64-year-old resident and injured two others was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison.
Jamal Rashid, 36, pleaded guilty earlier this month in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to involuntary manslaughter, aggravated arson and two counts of felonious assault.
Attorneys for Rashid, who lived in the building at 3205 Gobel Ave., said he has schizophrenia. In court documents, they said he was suffering from paranoia at the time.
The morning of Nov. 19, 2019, Rashid poured gasoline in front of, and on, the two-story building s front stairwell and set it on fire, prosecutors said. It was the only stairway to the second floor.
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