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In the quiet hours of a Detroit morning, a devastating fire tragically claimed the lives of 10-year-old Lataya Cook and her 8-year-old sister, Alaya. The blaze, which erupted on March 9, 2011, at their home on Rolfs Place, was immediately deemed suspicious by investigators who found evidence of an accelerant at the scene, suggesting the fire was intentionally set.

The girls' father, Dante Cook, told authorities that he had escaped the inferno by leaping from a second-story window. He clai ...Read More
Victim Details

Lataya Cook

March 28, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2011-03-09

2011-03-09

10

Lataya

Cook

12/31/2025


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