Overview
- Daniel Santana, 45, was charged in the fatal Bronx fire and is being held without bail after his arraignment.
- Prosecutors say surveillance video captured him spreading gasoline in a Mott Haven building before the flames took hold.
- Police said he made statements that implicated him, and investigators have not identified a motive.
- The fire began in a deli on the ground floor, spread to apartments above, and destroyed a mixed-use building on Third Avenue.
- The victims were identified as Oreste de Leon, 70, whose family owned the building, Larry Johnson, 62, and Gilberto Romero, 57, and two neighboring buildings were also damaged.