Pa. man charged with homicide after vowing to ‘smoke out’ woman in Mifflin County fire: police

Pa. man charged with homicide after vowing to ‘smoke out’ woman in Mifflin County fire: police

A 40-year-old Mifflin County man was charged Wednesday with aggravated arson and criminal homicide for starting multiple fires at a home after being spurned by a woman, charging documents say.The man, identified as Robert Zimmerman, 40, of Lewistown, later told investigators he started the fires throughout the home’s first floor, saying the woman might open her door and talk to him if he “smoked her out.”

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The victim, who refused to open the door, died of smoke inhalation while two other residents of the Lewistown house were seriously injured.