PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found after an early morning fire in northeast Philadelphia that police say was deliberately set.
Officers and fire department units responded to the home in the Frankford neighborhood just after 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said. After the fire was extinguished, a police fire marshal found the body of 52-year-old Michael Zappile on the first floor, police said.
The fire marshal ruled the blaze an arson. Police said no one has been arrested and the motive for the crime is unknown.
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