DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on counts of first-degree murder and more in the August 2020 killings in Green Valley Ranch. It took months before a break in the case, with the community fearful it was a targeted hate crime against the Senegalese immigrants who lost their lives. But newly released arrest documents show how police connected the teens to the crime scene through their Google searches, placed them at the fire through their Snapchat location data and read their messages to learn the arson was a case of misdirected revenge in a drug trafficking scheme. Months of Google search history pins suspects The fire killed 29-year-old Djibril Diol; his wife, 23-year-old Adja Diol; their 2-year-old daughter Khadija; Djibril’s sister, 25-year-old Hassan Diol; and her infant daughter, Hawa Baye. (KDVR) Just before 3 a.m. on Aug. 5, 2020, someone set fire to a Green Valley Ranch home at 5312 N. Truckee…
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How Google, Snapchat led police to teens in deadly arson – KDVR
