‘Deserve to be locked up’: Men sentenced in Edgewater arson set while family slept

CLEVELAND (WJW) — After pleading guilty earlier this month to setting an Edgewater neighborhood home on fire while a couple and their baby slept, two men were sentenced Tuesday.

Tyric Green, 21, was sentenced to 17-to-22.5 years in prison, while D’Andre Morris, 22, was sentenced to 6-to-9 years, according to Cuyahoga County Court documents.

Back in April, the two went to Green’s grandmother’s landlord’s home near West 106th Street and Clifton Boulevard with the intention of torching it. Once the fire was set, the couple inside was able to get out of the home with their 7-month-old child and cat, but their dog did die.

The fire reportedly caused more than $750,000 in damage.

Green was living with his grandmother at the time, prosecutors said, and they owed three months of rent payments.

“Instead of paying rent, Tyric Green thought it would be a good idea to burn his landlord’s house down. These two individuals deserve to be locked up,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said in a statement Tuesday.

The two men had pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated arson and cruelty to companion animal charges, among others.

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