Report: Dad Of GREAT WHITE Club Fire Victim Backs Christopher Little For Rhode Island Attorney General
October 27, 2010, 14 years ago
Boston.com's Eric Tucker reports:
The father of the youngest of 100 people killed by a 2003 nightclub fire endorsed the Moderate Party candidate for Rhode Island attorney general Wednesday, saying he believed Christopher Little had shown the most resolve to probe the decisions leading up to the blaze and how prosecutors handled the investigation and criminal case.
Many survivors and victims' relatives have said they thought more people should have been held responsible and were dismayed that no criminal trial was ever held to resolve their unanswered questions about The Station nightclub fire.
"I want to find out and our families want to find out what has really happened - how this came about, where it went, who did what - so we can save other people from this," said Dave Kane, who announced his endorsement with just a couple of other people at the fire site, now a makeshift memorial, in West Warwick.Kane's son, 18-year-old Nicholas O'Neill, died in the fire.
"Our families, they deserve more than a check. They deserve people to know what happened," Kane added. "And they deserve for their lives - for their lives - to be worth something, mainly helping to save the lives of others."
The fire began when pyrotechnics from the rock band GREAT WHITE set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam. The owners of the club, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, pleaded no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter, and Daniel Biechele, the former Great White tour manager who ignited the pyrotechnics, pleaded guilty to the same charges.
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