Al-Ashraf Khalil photographed hours after the June 18 blaze at a building he owned on the 300 block of West Indiana Street in Fairhill that killed Philadelphia fire Lt. Sean Williamson. Read more Photo courtesy of Justice Department court filings

by Chris Palmer Published Oct. 22, 2025, 2:07 p.m. ET

Two men who set a Fairhill building on fire in 2022 in hopes of collecting a six-figure insurance payout — but who instead caused the structure to collapse, killing a responding Philadelphia Fire Department lieutenant — were each sentenced Wednesday to decades in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe said the actions by Al-Ashraf Khalil and Isaam Jaghama, which led to the death of Lt. Sean Williamson and left five other first responders injured, were made “out of

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