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Published in TZ Latest News 29 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Church pastor faces manslaughter charges after deadly fire at Brooklyn SRO

Nearly two years after a deadly fire at an illegal Brooklyn SRO, the church pastor who owned the building was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. Prosecutors said Luckner Lorient, a 78-year-old pastor, ignored orders from the city’s Department of Buildings to vacate the three-story, wood-frame building at 1434 Flatbush Avenue, the New York Times reported.

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