Law enforcement sources told Denver7 Investigates that three teenagers, wearing masks, were allegedly seeking retribution for a drug deal gone awry, but set fire to the wrong house on Aug. 5.
Five immigrants from Senegal — Djibril Diol, his wife, Adja, their daughter, Khadija, his sister, Hassan and niece, Hawa Baye — died in that blaze.
“The safest place that anybody could be is (their) house,” said Papa Dia, of the African Leadership Group. “And being home in the middle of the night, and for people to come just by mistake… to have five precious lives taken by mistake doesn’t make it any easier.”