Funeral Planned For Girls Trapped In Fire
DETROIT (WWJ) - A Detroit public school will host a funeral Wednesday for two girls who died when a fire trapped them in a house.
Detroit's Spain Elementary School will host the funeral Alaya and Lataya Cook on Wednesday.
Dante Cook says he tried to help his 8-year-old daughter Alaya and 10-year-old daughter Lataya but couldn't persuade them to jump from a second floor window last Wednesday.
The father has said the house was firebombed.
Authorities haven't announced the cause of the blaze.
Lataya was a fourth-grader at Spain Elementary School, and Alaya was a third-grader there.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
