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Sep 8, 2008 4:06 pm US/Eastern

Another Victim Dies After Suspicious Newark Fire

Police: Fire Was Set To Conceal Homicide

NEWARK (CBS) ― Three bodies were found after a house fire Monday morning, and the Essex County prosecutor said it appears the fire was set to conceal a homicide. A fourth person died Monday afternoon. Detectives said at least two of the victims had been shot.

"It's a horrific crime scene," Prosecutor Paula Dow said. "We have multiple victims and a fire that looks like a cover-up."

The fire was reported at 7:45 a.m. in a three-story wood frame residence on Columbia Avenue near the Newark-Irvington border.

The fire was extinguished within an hour. The two lower floors of the home were extensively damaged.

Dow said 18-year-old Zakiyyah Jones, who was taken to University Hospital in Newark for treatment of a gunshot wound to the head, died Monday afternoon.

One of the murdered women was 40-year-old Candy McLean. She was found with two teenage relatives. A baby was removed from the home unharmed.

McLean's sister, April Middleton, told CBS 2, "It's the Devil. It must be the Devil, Satan…that's all I can say, just the Devil running loose."

Paul Loriquet, spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, said the injured person was in the operating room at University Hospital in Newark late Monday morning.

Detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Squad and Arson Task Force along with Irvington police were on the scene.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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