Four calls in four days to the same house on 23rd Street SE in Washington, D.C., a domestic fight, broken windows and small fires suspected of being deliberately set.
One call came just two hours before the raging blaze that trapped and ultimately overcame the home’s three occupants as they slept early Sunday.
At a press conference, questions emerged about how the fatal fire could have happened, given that police were already looking for the suspect in the earlier incidents, 56-year-old Robert Simpson.
Court documents in the case indicate 34-year-old victim Jessica Cunningham told officers called to the home Oct. 2 that she and Simpson had been fighting over relationship issues.
At one point, they had both lived in the home, along with 64-year-old victim Ronald McKinnon and his mother, 84-year-old Marion McKinnon, who also died in the fire.
Documents indicate the repeated targeting of the red brick home in …