Firefighters responded to the fire around 5:28 a.m. in the 5900 block of Riggs Road.

They say the fire started in the home’s basement before spreading to its first and second floors.

Firefighters rescued one man, 55-year-old Norman Rogers III, from the home’s second floor and took him to a nearby hospital, where he later died. His mother and nephew made it out alive and the nephew was unable to reach his uncle. 

He graduated from the Maryland School of the Deaf.

Source: News article

Facebook Profile: Norman Rogers III

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DeSean Welch was killed by a gunman after attending a football game with friends at Rancho Verde High School on a Friday night. Welch and a friend were approached by an unknown armed man who started asking questions and then they tries to explain to him that they were deaf. The gunman followed them and then opened fire at the van after the teens drove away and left the area. Welch later died at the hospital.

Welch was an aspiring ball player and popular teenager who had passion for the sport. He was a fifth-year student at California School for the Deaf-Riverside and played varsity basketball.

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