By PAUL FRANGIPANE & RICHARD ANDERSON
Brooklyn Supreme Court jurors were shown a video confession on Thursday of a New Jersey man accused of setting his girlfriend’s apartment ablaze.
Thaddeus Boone, 24, admitted to then Brooklyn ADA Terrence Fleming –Warren during interrogation that he set fire to Aquasya Meadow’s leather jacket in her fifth-floor apartment in a Wyckoff Gardens apartment building at 130 Third Ave in March 2014.
“I took the lighter and I just lit it. I just lit it and walked out” said Boone on the video.
According to court testimony, the fire left his girlfriend’s 8-year-old sister and a 5-month-old son in critical condition. Two of her siblings and her 63-year-old grandmother were left with minor injuries.
“I just apologized about this whole situation. It wasn’t my intention to hurt nobody” said Boone.
According to alleged confession, on the night of the fire Meadow’s confronted Boone near Boone’s Newark home about cheating on her. During the altercation Boone took Meadow’s apartment keys and phone. Boone then went to the Brooklyn apartment after having “two or three beers” and left after finding no one home. Boone later returned and allegedly started the fire.
“I was just mad; I was mad thinking; why can’t she just talk to me?” Boone said
Video surveillance allegedly shows Boone leaving and entering the Wyckoff Garden house twice around the time of the fire.
Boone is charged with five counts of attempted murder, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, arson and burglary.
If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison.
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