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Teen Pleads Guilty To Causing Deadly New Albany House Fire

Last updated on Wednesday, April 23, 2014

(FLOYD CO.) - A suspect in the deadly New Albany house fire that claimed the lives of three children entered a guilty plea Tuesday morning.

18-year-old Shelby Makowsky was one of three people arrested after the January fire on Ealy Avenue.

She pleaded guilty a charge of conspiracy to commit arson. The guilty plea was to bump the charge down to a B felony, which means she faces 6-20 years in prison when she is sentenced next month.

Cody Cashion is charged with felony murder in the deaths of 4-year old Tyrese Hughes and his sisters, 2-year-old Trinity and 6-year-old Tai'zah Hughes. Their 5-year-old sister, Taty'ana Hughes, survived, but was hospitalized for several months recovering from severe burns.

19-year-old Kylie Jenks faces a charge of conspiracy to commit arson resulting in bodily injury.

Police said Cashion shot a flare gun into a window of the house as revenge for an alleged robbery by Jonathan Stewart -- who lived there with his older sister, but wasn't home that night, but the four sleeping children were inside.

Investigators believe the flare landed in the bedroom, burning at 3,000 degrees, igniting the fire.

Police said when the suspects learned the siblings died, they returned to Ealy Street to recover the flare shell.

Police said the women were aware of what Cashion planned to do in the early morning hours of Jan. 4.

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