INDIANAPOLIS - A five-month-old girl has died a week after she was injured in a duplex fire.
Marion County Coroner Alfie Bellew confirms Jasmine Sanders died after being taken off life support over the weekend.
Firefighters were called to a home on Bradley Ave. early last Monday (April 25th). A 28-year-old woman had burns to her feet, and her two children, including Jasmine, were critically injured. Her other child, a four-year-old girl, was also hospitalized, but an update on her condition is not available.
Police say they found squalid conditions at the home more than a month before the blaze, but that a caseworker who met with the parents allowed the children to remain in the home.
Smoke detectors woke the neighbors next door. They escaped, but couldn't reach the girls still in the house.
"Flames were just too bad and there was no way of us getting in. We know that the kids made it out and went to the hospital," said Billy King, fire victim. "We saw the kids get carried out and taken to the hospital. They were upstairs in their bedrooms. One girl was in the back bedroom and the other baby was in the middle bedroom."
Indianapolis Officer Garland Cooper says police found broken glass, trash and food on the floor in March.
The fire occurred a week after two men were found shot to death in the other half of the duplex.
