'Life's not fair': Young father killed in New Jersey apartment fire that police deemed 'suspicious'
PEMBERTON, N.J. - A young father was killed Wednesday morning in a Burlington County apartment fire that investigators called "suspicious."
Emergency crews responded to the multi-level apartment building on Egbert Street around 6 a.m. Neighbors said the 3-alarm started in apartment 2 where 22-year-old Cameron Powell lived with his father.
Family members say Powell was killed in the blaze and his father suffered burns. Powell was the father of a 6-month-old, family said.
"Life’s not fair. He didn’t get a chance to show everybody he was going to make it," Cameron's aunt Shelly Adams said. "He didn’t get a chance! That breaks my heart."
Cameron Powell, 22, was killed Wednesday during an apartment fire in Burlington County that police labeled 'suspicious.'
The cause of the fire was not revealed immediately following the blaze, but investigators called its origins "suspicious."
Brittani Lengle, a resident whose upstairs apartment was destroyed, showed FOX 29 e-mails to apartment management complaining of unresolved "domestic disturbances" and safety issues.
NJRealtySolutions did not return FOX 29's calls for comment.
Jeff Cole reports that tenants gathered outside the charred apartment building claimed they heard a ‘commotion’ just before the fire broke out.
Meanwhile, New Jersey State Police said they will continue to investigate what sparked the deadly blaze.
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