Grisly death of US teen Maggie Long a possible hate crime, FBI says
- Maggie Long was set on fire, burned alive, at her family’s home in 2017
- FBI investigates possible new leads, still no arrests have been made
The FBI has revealed that it is investigating the 2017 death of an Asian-American teenager in Colorado as a possible hate crime, a grisly case in which local authorities said she was purposefully set on fire and burned alive in her family’s mountain community home.
The FBI said in a statement Monday to Denver news station KCNC-TV that it was looking into the death of 17-year-old Maggie Long as a “hate crime matter”.
Long’s death was ruled a homicide, and authorities later released composite sketches of at least three men they believed were involved in her death. No arrests have been made.
The FBI did not provide any information about why agents are looking at the possibility of a hate crime.
Long’s body was found inside her family’s home in December 2017 in Bailey, a mountain community about 72km southwest of Denver. A fire had broken out following a report of a disturbance.