Police charge LaMere in burning death

Mitchell LaMere, 23, of Box Elder, intentionally started a house fire that killed Fred Bacon, Chippewa Cree Tribal Police said in a complaint filed Friday.

The complaint says Lamere started the fire at 18 Indian Rock St. on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation on May 19 with a bottle of gasoline he obtained from his mother’s residence.

Lamere doused the front entrance in gasoline and lit it on fire, before entering the house through the rear door. Lamere then lit trash in a garbage can on fire that was placed in the middle of the house’s kitchen floor, the complaint says.

Lamere did not warn occupan...