A retrial of a man accused in state charges of setting a 1995 fire that killed three Pittsburgh firefighters could be moving to federal court now that a grand jury has indicted Gregory Brown Jr.
The federal grand jury indictment, returned Nov. 1 and unsealed Friday, charged Brown, 39, with malicious destruction of property by fire resulting in death.
Brown was convicted in 1997 on three Commonwealth charges of second-degree murder for the deaths of firefighters Patricia Conroy, Marc Kolenda and Capt. Thomas Brooks in a fire Feb. 14, 1995, on Bricelyn Street.