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Uncle Charged in Fire That Killed Baby
TOWER, Minn. (AP) _ The uncle of a baby who was killed in a house fire in St.
Louis County has been charged in the child's death.
A criminal complaint says 24-year-old Jesse Lee Bonacci-Koski was babysitting
his 11-month-old nephew Bentley Joe Lewis Koski last Wednesday. The complaint
says he told authorities he left the home in Tower to go buy drugs before a fire
broke out and killed the child.
Bonacci-Koski is charged with second-degree manslaughter, possession of methamphetamine and auto theft. Firefighters found the baby's body in a crib after extinguishing the fire.
Bonacci-Koski told a judge in court Monday that he's unemployed. Bail is set at
$200,000. Authorities have not released the cause of the fire but said it is not
believed to be arson.
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