Julio Gonzalez
Det. Kevin Moroney and Det. Andy Lugo with Gonzalez.
Julio Gonzalez, 36, of the Bronx, is escorted by Lt. James Malvey
from the 48th precinct
after he was
charged with arson and 87 counts
of murder after witnesses implicated him i
n a deadly fire
in a
social club 3/25.
The fire in the Happy Land social club is the
worst mass slaying
in the U.S. and the
deadliest New York blaze
since the Triangle Shirt Waist
factory disaster exactly 79 years
earlier.
The container used by Gonzalez to start the Happy Land fire.
A police diagram of the Happy Land social club, March 26, 1990.
Police and fire officials mill about the Happy Land Social Club
in the Bronx early 3/25
following a fire that
killed at least 87
people inside-- mostly from smoke inhalation.
The club reportedly
had no windows.
Victims of the fire in front of 1959 Suthern Boulevard, March 25,
1990.
Outside the front door of Happy Land as the dead are removed.
March 25, 1990.
In front of Happy Land, March 25, 1990.
Bodies are covered along the sidewalk in front of the Happy Land
Social Club in the
Bronx following
a fire in the windowless-second floor room early 3/25. At least 87
people are reported dead.
Bodies are covered along the sidewalk in front of Happy Land
Social Club in the Bronx
following
a fire that claimed at least 87 lives March 25th.
Bodies are covered along the sidewalk in front of the Happy Land
Social Club in the Bronx.
Inside the second floor of Happy Land, March 25, 1990.
Happy Land after the fire.
Aftermath
87 people, mostly ethnic Hondurans, were killed in the fire at
the Happy Land social club, housed
in a condemned building. Cuban
refugee Julio Gonzalez, whose former girlfriend was employed
at the
club, was later arrested for having set the fire and convicted of
arson and murder.
The monument to the Happy Land victims.