On Friday, May 17, 20-year-old Kevin Bui pleaded guilty to the murder of a family of five over a stolen Apple iPhone. The horror is compounded by the fact that the young man confused houses and set fire to the wrong door, even though the crime was already severe.
A resident of Colorado, USA, set fire to a house in Denver in 2020, thinking he was avenging the theft of an iPhone. According to the Denver County District Attorney's Office, he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. Bui, who was 16 years old at the time of the fire on August 5, 2020, was held accountable as an adult.
According to the arrest report, Bui's iPhone was stolen during a drug deal. Investigators stated that he intended to burn the house of those who robbed him. He tracked the iPhone using a special Apple application for such cases.
Investigators claim that Bui somehow misidentified the property and instead set fire to the family house of Senegalese immigrants that he did not intend to target. As a result of the fire, five people died, including a 21-month-old child and a 6-month-old baby.
NBC News reported that as part of the guilty plea agreement, 60 other charges against Bui were dropped, including first-degree murder and arson. He faces 60 years in prison, and the sentence will be handed down on July 2.
Bui was not alone and is the last of three people who pleaded guilty in connection to the fire. Dillon Sibert, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder under a plea agreement, was sentenced last year to three years in juvenile detention and seven years in state prison for young offenders. Gavin Seymour was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in March.
Although programs like Find My can be incredibly accurate, they are not entirely reliable. In 2022, a Denver SWAT team mistakenly raided the home of a 77-year-old woman in search of a truck with stolen weapons and an iPhone. The woman's lawyer said that the police relied on the Find My app, which eventually led them to the wrong address. In March, a jury awarded the woman $3.76 million in compensation.
Source: Business Insider
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