LEWISTON — The Maine State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit is seeking information about a 14-year-old boy who died at his South Paris home 27 years ago in a fire that was determined to be an arson.
Steven O’Neil, an eighth-grader at a local school, had helped his stepparents and two younger stepbrothers escape their home through a second-story window before O’Neil succumbed to smoke inhalation and died Nov. 3, 1989, according to a posting on the Maine State Police Facebook page.
An investigation at that time revealed that the fire was set with a flammable liquid and O’Neil’s death was considered a homicide.
According to an entry on the Maine State Police website, a suspect had been interviewed in the case.
Anyone with any information about the incident is urged to contact: Maine State Police, Major Crimes Unit-South, One Game Farm Road, Gray, ME, 04039, 1-800-228-0857 in state; or 207-657-3030 out of state.
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