San Marcos police and fire investigators said the combustible material that caused a fire that killed five, seriously injured others and displaced more than 200 residents of the Iconic Village apartment complex in San Marcos in July 2018–the deadliest in the city’s history–was a discarded mattress.
A complaint and affidavit of probable cause for arrest for San Marcos Police Department case #18-45297, obtained by the Daily Record, presents a chronological narrative of nearly five years worth of interviews and evidence that led to the arrest Wednesday of a 30-year-old Austin man and former resident of the apartment complex. He is the man who investigators said is allegedly responsible for setting the mattress afire that summer–perhaps an act of frustration that accelerated too quickly to stop.
The most recent interview described in the affidavit is dated June 26, just nine days before the long, seemingly cold, fire investigation would ignite again.
