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REVENGE CALLED ARSON MOTIVE
Say smirking suspect set Duncan Ave. blaze
Monday, June 06, 2005

By JASON DEL REY
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A 21-year-old Jersey City woman, enraged about a dispute over $10, allegedly set fire to a Jersey City house late Saturday night, causing a two-alarm fire that ravaged the home's two floors and left a seven-week-old boy in critical condition.

Jersey City Police charged Kamila Cason, of Duncan Avenue, with aggravated arson for setting several small fires on the first floor of an attached house at 262 Duncan Avenue just before midnight Saturday, according to Capt. Andrew Johnson of the Jersey City Fire Department.

Authorities said Cason had argued with the woman who lived in the building's first floor apartment over a $10 debt, but further details about the dispute could not be obtained.

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Sadly, a young child was critically injured in this fire. If he dies, police will consider upgrading her charges to murder.

Having lived in JC the first 29 years of my life, I can say that it is decisions like these that have contributed to this area's less-than-stellar reputation.