The fire took the life of the resident, 22-year-old Camryn Powell.
A man has admitted starting an apartment fire in the spring of last year that killed a 22-year-old woman, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said.
Newlin Evans IV, 23, of Burlington Township, accepted a plea deal in Burlington County Superior Court Wednesday in exchange for a 22-year sentence, prosecutors said. The deal required him plead guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter, officials said. The blaze erupted in a first floor unit at the Tara Hall Apartment Complex in Pemberton on the morning of April 20, 2022, taking the life of resident Camryn Powell, authorities said.
Investigators determined that Evans cut through the screen of the unit, broke the window and threw material soaked in gasoline that he had lit on fire into the apartment, officials said. Evans fled the scene and was later treated at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia for burns, authorities said. He was arrested upon being released from the hospital and has been held at Burlington County Jail since.His sentence will be subject to the No Early Release Act, which requires offenders convicted of violent crimes to serve 85 percent of their sentence before being eligible for parole. His sentencing is scheduled for March 24.
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