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Arsonist who killed 87 in Happy Land club fire dies in prison
By nypost.com- Amanda Woods
Published: 09/14/2016

The man who killed 87 people in the infamous Happy Land social club fire in 1990 died in an upstate hospital on Tuesday, officials said.

Julio Gonzalez, 61, was serving a 25 years to life sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., according to Thomas Mailey, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. He was pronounced dead at the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh at 11:30 a.m.

His official cause of death will be determined by the Clinton County Medical Examiner’s office.

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