BELLEVILLE – Tenants have filed a lawsuit against their landlords claiming the East St. Louis residence they were living in had no working smoke detectors when a fire broke out, tragically killing five children living on the property.
Sabrina Dunigan, 34, was said to have left their apartment to pick up her boyfriend from work when the fire broke out on the day of her birthday on August 6 at around 3am.
A mother whose five children died in an apartment fire earlier this year has been criminally charged in connection with their deaths, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Prosecutors on…
An East St. Louis mother has been charged in St. Clair County in the deaths of her five children in an apartment fire in August, according to online court records.