Investigators stand outside a house where five immigrants from Senegal were found dead after a fire in suburban Denver on Aug. 5, 2020
The house where five immigrants from Senegal were found dead after an August 2020 fire in Denver.
  • A Colorado man pleaded guilty to killing a family by setting their home on fire in 2020.
  • He wanted revenge after his iPhone was stolen but targeted the wrong house, investigators said.
  • Five people, including two young children, were killed in the blaze.

A Colorado man set a house in Denver on fire in 2020, thinking he was avenging the theft of his iPhone. But he targeted the wrong house.

He pleaded guilty last week to killing an uninvolved family who lived there.