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Man Kills His Own Brother While Trying to Burn Down His Ex’s Place

Samuel Haney II was angry his ex-girlfriend let his brother stay with her after the siblings brawled.

A man in Indiana allegedly set a fatal fire in his ex-girlfriend’s apartment because she was allowing his brother to stay with her, the Terre Haute Tribune-Star reports. The fire killed his brother, and the man, Samuel Haney II, is charged with murder, arson, and burglary. Haney admitted to prosecutors that he broke a window in his ex’s apartment (she is unnamed in the report) Tuesday to set fire to her curtains because she had welcomed Haney’s brother Terry, who died Thursday from second- and third- degree burns that covered 70 percent of his body. The brothers had been in a physical fight before the fire, Samuel Haney told prosecutors.