The Dawson Family Fire A Tragedy That Shook Baltimore - 16, 2002, darryl brooks kicked in the dawson's front door, doused the house in gasoline and set it on fire, killing angela dawson, her husband and their five kids. On october 16, 2002, the dawson family home in east baltimore was firebombed. Monday, on the 15th anniversary of their death, the community came together to honor them. Angela dawson and her five children are killed in house fire in baltimore that neighbors say was set by drug dealers whom dawson would shoo from in front of her house;. 16, 2002, one of them attacked her home with a firebomb that killed her, her husband and five children. When first responders came to the scene, they found that dawson and her five children had died in a fire. Her husband, carnell dawson sr. , had escaped by jumping out the. In october 2002, angela dawson, her husband, and their five children were killed after she reported drug activity in the neighborhood. The dawson’s home on east preston. After they were killed in an arson, their names are evoked in baltimore's battle cry against pushers. But did they die in vain? Angela dawson and her family spent much of their. The dawson family horror was a low point of the new millennium. A mother, father and five children were killed in october 2002 when a firebomb hit their house, in retribution for. They had been burned to death in a fire set in retaliation for the parents’ opposition to drug dealing in their neighborhood. Angela dawson had complained to the police repeatedly. Operation crime and justice lead investigator joy lepola examines what's changed since the dawson family was murdered in 2002 and whether those changes are. The dawson family, a family of seven (parents carnell and angela, and five children), were all murdered in baltimore, maryland, u. s. , on october 16, 2002. After angela had repeatedly. A neighbor is charged with setting the fire that killed angela dawson, her husband and her five children, allegedly in retaliation for the dawsons' public stance against drug.
16, 2002, darryl brooks kicked in the dawson's front door, doused the house in gasoline and set it on fire, killing angela dawson, her husband and their five kids. On october 16, 2002, the dawson family home in east baltimore was firebombed. Monday, on the 15th anniversary of their death, the community came together to honor them. Angela dawson and her five children are killed in house fire in baltimore that neighbors say was set by drug dealers whom dawson would shoo from in front of her house;. 16, 2002, one of them attacked her home with a firebomb that killed her, her husband and five children.