Four calls in four days to the same house on 23rd Street Southeast Washington, D.C.: a domestic fight, broken windows and small fires suspected of being deliberately set. One call came just two hours before the raging blaze that trapped and ultimately overcame the home’s three occupants as they slept early Sunday morning.

D.C. police said Monday that authorities charged a man with murder after three people died after a house fire in Southeast broke out Sunday morning. A D.C. judge ordered 56-year-old Robert Simpson to be held without bond Monday afternoon,