Police in Toronto have upgraded the charge against a man accused of setting fire to a tent with someone inside to murder, after the burn victim died in hospital.
Early on Dec. 26, police were called to a fire in the Charles Street and Yonge Street area of Toronto.
Officers said a man had deliberately set fire to a tent and the mattress inside, throwing things onto the blaze to keep it burning.
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Keith Appleby, a 51-year-old man, was inside the tent at the time. He was pulled from the burning tent and rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition.
On Dec. 29, police said he had died of his injuries. They upgraded the charge against the 36-year-old man accused in the case to first-degree murder.
Homicide detectives are leading the investigation.
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