Victim ID’d in fatal West Chester fire last Friday

The Butler County coroner has ruled the fire that took the life of a 34-year-old man in West Chester Twp. on Friday was a suicide.

Emergency crews responded to a fire at about 4 a.m. Friday at a single-family home in the 6900 block of Forest View Court and one man was pronounced dead.

The coroner released the autopsy results Monday identifying 34-year-old Kayden B. Clark as a victim of smoke inhalation. The manner of death was ruled a suicide.

Township spokeswoman Barb Wilson said the fire is still under investigation.

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