Avenue Liquors in Redwood City, Calif.

The manager of a Redwood City liquor store is believed to have intentionally started the fire that engulfed the shop last year, killing him and another employee, police said. 

Investigators believe Benigno “Benny” Nuguid Pare, 56, used gasoline to start the blaze in the loft area of Avenue Liquors at 2147 Roosevelt Ave., the Redwood City Police Department said in a news release Thursday. Fire crews were called to the area just after 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, and eventually found Pare and 25-year-old Anil Kumar........

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