Man questioned in deadly boiler installation
01:00 AM EST on Saturday, January 12, 2008
By Gregory Smith
Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE, RI — The police have found the man who, they say, installed or helped to install the boiler for a residential heating system that is implicated in the deaths of three people from carbon-monoxide poisoning.

He is Alex Menendez-Mendez, 23, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, Maj. Stephen Campbell, commander of the Police Department Investigative Division, said yesterday.

In an interview with detectives, Menendez-Mendez “admitted that he … did in some way participate in the installation,â€