A 5-year-old boy sleeping on the second floor of his New York home was killed in a targeted house fire , and the person who allegedly started the blaze is going on trial this week — with her own sister set to testify against her, reports say.

Taquida Hendrix, 31, is facing murder and arson charges in connection to a July 2024 house fire in Rochester that killed Malakai Stovall, according to prosecutors and the boy's family, per local ABC affiliate WHAM .

Flames ripped through Stovall's home on July 28 at around 2 a.m. after Hendrix and her sister, Tiakayla Hendrix, 21, and a third defendant, Roy Chambers, pulled up to the residence to set it on fire as retaliation for an alleged attack on the Hendrixes' father earlier in the day, prosecutors say. The trio thought a person involved in the

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