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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A parolee admitted setting an Illinois house fire that killed five children and said he was "sorry" about it, according to a police report.
Zachary Meeks, 27, said he did not believe the children were home when he set the blaze early Sunday in Quincy, Ill. using gasoline he'd bought at a nearby convenience store, according to an investigator's statement obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Quincy police Detective Adam Yates wrote in the report that Meeks confessed to setting the blaze as part of a feud with members of the family over his plans to testify against one of them.
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