Seventeen-year-old Thomas Euppert was held in Yonkers City Jail today on $50,000 bail following his arrest on charges of setting fire to the Yonkers Jewish Community Center last December 20 causing the deaths of nine children and three adults. A hearing will be held Tuesday.
The youth was released Friday from a hospital where he had undergone 17 days of court-ordered psychiatric examination after allegedly confessing he set the fire. He had been in custody of the Westchester Family Court until his release from the hospital when he was immediately arrested.
An attorney filed a motion in Federal Court in New York City to prevent Westchester County officials from prosecuting the youth. Leonard Rubenfleld, the district attorney, had said previously he would seek a first degree murder indictment against the youth.
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